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A guillotine is a machine that was invented to cut off people's heads during the French Revolution. Basically there's a frame at the bottom to hold the person's neck in place, and a big slanted blade at the top that's raised with a rope and can then be allowed to fall, cutting through the neck of whatever unlucky person was put in the neck frame at the bottom. It was often used to kill members of the aristocracy during the revolution and was named after the person who invented it.

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