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	Joseph-Ignace Guillotin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Joseph-Ignace Guillotin (May 28, 1738- March 26, 1814) did not invent the guillotine, but on October 10, 1789 proposed the use of a mechanical device to carry out death penalties in France.
		It is in this position that he proposed the guillotine to the Legislative Assembly.
		A popular urban legend was circulated that he was killed by the guillotine.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joseph-Ignace_Guillotin (255 words)

	Joseph Ignace Guillotin (www.whonamedit.com)
		Joseph Ignace Guillotin initially was interested in the Arts and became professor of literature at the Irisnah College at Bordeaux.
		Guillotine was one of the first French doctors to support Edward Jenner’s (1749-1823) discovery and in 1805 was the president of the Committee for vaccination in Paris.
		Guillotin also wanted the machine to be hidden from the view of large crowds, in accord with his view that the execution should be private and dignified.
	www.whonamedit.com /doctor.cfm/2275.html (1653 words)

	Guillotine
		A French doctor named Joseph Ignace Guillotin, elected as a legislator shortly after the start of the French Revolution, felt that the nation's current methods of execution — hanging and beheading by sword — were cruel and unusual.
		Joseph Tussaud returns to London with the well-used blade of the guillotine he purchased from Clement Sanson, the last in a line of Sansons who held the office of Executioner of Paris for over 150 years.
		Arguably, the guillotine was serving its original humanitarian purpose by delivering its victims from the clutches of this lunatic, although those people being beheaded might beg to differ.
	www.rotten.com /library/death/execution/guillotine (1157 words)

	guillotine. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
		Ironically, the guillotine, which became the most notable symbol of the excesses of the French Revolution, was named for a humanitarian physician, Joseph Ignace Guillotin.
		Guillotin, a member of the French Constituent Assembly, recommended in a speech to that body on October 10, 1789, that executions be performed by a beheading device rather than by hanging, the method used for commoners, or by the sword, reserved for the nobility.
		The device was called a louisette or louison after its inventor's name, but because of Guillotin's famous speech, his name became irrevocably associated with the machine.
	www.bartleby.com /61/61/G0306100.html (333 words)

	Guillotine
		The guillotine was not, however, a French invention -- although Guillotin is often named as its inventor, it had a history as a farm implement used for killing poultry in Germany, England, and Persia before being introduced as a method of capital punishment.
		The Nazis employed it extensively: twenty guillotines were in use in Germany and (from 1938) in Austria.
		The guillotine was first adopted in France during the French Revolution.
	www.fastload.org /gu/Guillotine.html (377 words)

	Today in Technology History - Apr 25
		The guillotine (pronounced in English as either GILL-uh-teen or GEE-uh-teen) is named after a French physician, Joseph Ignace Guillotin, who was born in 1738.
		Guillotin was imprisoned for political reasons in the aftermath of the Revolution, but he was released and died at home in 1814 or 1821.
		The guillotine was last used in France in 1977; it was outlawed in that country, along with all forms of capital punishment, in 1981.
	www.tecsoc.org /pubs/history/2002/apr25.htm (395 words)

	THE CHAPEL PERILOUS: Décolleté ~ The Terror & The Guillotine
		Guillotin had in mind when he recommended a design to Dr. Antoine Louis of the Academy of Surgery (in fact, the guillotine was originally known as the Louisette...
		But once his public role had been reduced by the guillotine to the mere pulling of a pin the better to show his skill by the sheer numbers that could be dispatched in the shortest amount of time.
		The garden trellis, and the guillotine, are alike entwined with the honeysuckle of the new 'sensibility'.
	www.sepulchritude.com /chapelperilous/decollete/decollete-revolt.html (1581 words)

	guillotine.html
		Joseph Guillotin was born in Saintes, France in 1738 and elected to the French National Assembly in 1789.
		Guillotin was a Frenchman who was outraged that criminals who were put to death had to suffer so much before dying, and he called for a more humane form of punishment.
		The guillotine was used as a form of capital punishment in France from 1792 to 1977.
	espanol.lycos.com /info/guillotine.html (556 words)

	Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Guil’lotine (3 syl.),
		So named from Joseph Ignace Guillotin, a French physician, who proposed its adoption to prevent unnecessary pain (1738–1814).
		Guillotin” or “Guillotin’s daughter.” It was introduced April 25th, 1792, and is still used in France.
		“It was but this very day that the daughter of M. de Guillotin was recognised by her fatber in the National Assembly, and it should properly be called ‘Mademoiselle Guillotin.’”—Dumas: The Countess de Charny, chap.
	www.bartleby.com /81/7732.html (150 words)

	MSN Encarta - Multimedia - Guillotine
		Proposed in 1789 by French physician Joseph Ignace Guillotin, the guillotine was widely used during the French Revolution (1789-1799), first to decapitate members of the nobility and Roman Catholic clergy, and later to behead the revolutionaries themselves.
		The guillotine remained in use in France until capital punishment was abolished in 1981.
		This reduced model belongs to the Museum of the City of Paris, Musée Carnavalet, Paris, France.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /media_461530343/Guillotine.html (75 words)

	Self-Service Science Forum Message
		The instrument of execution was named after Dr Joseph-Ignace Guillotin who proposed its use to the Revolutionary Council (in 1790 I think).
		Guillotin did not invent the device, similar machines had been used in different parts of Europe before then (including the UK with the Halifax Gibbet and the Edinburgh Maiden).
		The guillotine became well known around the world as the French took it to all their colonies.
	www2.abc.net.au /science/k2/stn/posts/topic175956.shtm (260 words)

	Joseph-Ignace Guillotin
		Joseph-Ignace Guillotin (May 28,1738 - May 26, 1814) Dr.
		Ironically, Guillotin was oposed to the death penalty.
		Guillotin did not invent the guillotine, but proposed the use of a mechanical device to carry out death penalties in France on October 10, 1789.
	www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/j/jo/joseph_ignace_guillotin.html (107 words)

	The Guillotine
		Doctor Joseph Ignace Guillotin was not the inventor of the Guillotine.
		Although the guillotine was mostly used during the French Revolution, a guillotine-like machine can be found as early as 1307 in Ireland.
		There is a myth that the guillotine killed Dr. Guillotin however that is not true.
	www.expage.com /frenchrevguillotine (393 words)

	French Revolution Joseph Fouche Napoleon Waterloo
		Joseph-Ignace Guillotin came to resent the association of his name with an instrument of terror.
		The guillotine did not account for all of the 16,000 deaths, but the slaughter had been accomplished in nine months.
		Death was not terrifying when it came in the form of casualties suffered on the battlefield, particularly when those losses were accompanied by victory.
	www.periclespress.com /francel2.html (2455 words)

	Names related the Guillotine
		Guillotin died on the 26th of May in 1814, not on the guillotine, but of a carbuncle in his shoulder.
		Was condemned for the murder of a policeman, and guillotined the 1st of October 1957.
		Guillotin was born at Saintes on the 28th of May 1738.
	www.metaphor.dk /guillotine/Pages/Names.html (1174 words)

	Guillotine history
		The 18th century French physician Joseph-Ignace Guillotin did not invent the guillotine, but had the unfortunate luck to be forever associated with the machine made famous during the French Revolution.
		Monsieur Guillotin's only connection to the device lies in his efforts to convince the French National Assembly to adopt some sort of new machine as a more humane method of capital punishment.
		But the name was quickly replace by 'guillotine'.
	wywy.essortment.com /guillotinehisto_rgxj.htm (878 words)

	The Guillotine
		The guillotine was an icon for the French Revolution; it embodied a change in politics as well as the age of Enlightenment.
		From the guillotine’s proposal, it was to be a new way of carrying out executions and furthering the spirit of equality among the people of France.
		The guillotine had been moved previously from the place de Gréve, where Pelletier was executed, to the place de Carrousel, and then on to the place de Révolution where it remained briefly.
	www.usd.edu /~jbulman/the_guillotine.htm (4130 words)

	guillotine
		It was the French physician Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, born in Saintes in 1738 and elected to the National Assembly in 1789, who first promoted a law that required that all executions, even those of commoners and plebeians, be carried out by means of a “machine that beheads painlessly”.
		Joseph-Ignace Guillotin died peacefully in 1821, at the age of eighty three.
		Science quickly now discovered a new and surprising fact (confirmed since by modern neurophysiology): a head cut off by a swift slash of axe or guillotine knows that it is a beheaded head whilst it rolls along the ground or into the basket —consciousness survives long enough for such a perception.
	www.geocities.com /i2amsocial/guillotine.html (283 words)

	Guillotine definition - Medical Dictionary definitions of popular medical terms
		Guillotine: A machine used during (and after) the French Revolution for beheading people condemned to death, by means of a heavy sharp blade that slid down within vertical guides.
		By extension, "guillotine" refers to any shearing machine or instrument (such as a paper cutter, a book trimmer, etc.) that is like a guillotine in its action.
		Appalled by the cruel methods (such as torture) by which people were then executed, Dr. Guillotin argued before the French National Assembly in 1789 that painless and private beheading by machine should become the standard means for capital punishment in a civilized society such as in France.
	www.medterms.com /script/main/art.asp?articlekey=14889 (325 words)

	JOSEPH-IGNACE GUILLOTIN Autograph
		The year after he signed this report, Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, a supporter of capital punishment, recommended the use of a beheading machine as a humane form of execution.
		This document was signed by the French physician who supported the use of a beheading machine as punishment, not to be confused with a French politician named "Guillotin" who lived at the same time.
		French King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette were guillotined in 1793.
	www.historyforsale.com /html/prodetails.asp?documentid=189491 (246 words)

	Discovering Dickens - A Community Reading Project
		The guillotine, named after its inventor (Dr. Joseph Ignace Guillotin), is the famous instrument of execution used by the French Republic; it was especially active during the Reign of Terror.
		Guillotin can … in all cases of medical police and hygiène be a present aid: but, greater far, he can produce his “Report on the Penal Code”; and reveal therein a cunningly devised Beheading Machine, which shall become famous and world-famous.
		For two-and-twenty years he, unguillotined, shall hear nothing but guillotine, see nothing but guillotine; then dying, shall through long centuries wander, as it were, a disconsolate ghost, on the wrong side of Styx and Lethe; his name like to outlive Caesar’s.
	dickens.stanford.edu /archive/tale/issue11_gloss2.html (960 words)

	Joseph-Ignace Guillotine
		French physician, president of the Chamber of the Provinces in 1775, founder of the French Acadamy of Medicine, and deputy to the French assembly in 1789, Dr. Guillotin neither invented nor met his death by the guillotine.
		The guillotine was invented by Antoine Louis, secretary of the Acadamy of Surgeons, and a mechanic named Schmidt.
		It was in that assembly on December 1, 1789 that he urged capital punishment should be inflicted as speedily and painlessly as possible, and argued for a machine designed for this end.
	freemasonry.bcy.ca /biography/guillotin_j/guillotin_j.html (182 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - guillotine
		Guillotine, decapitating machine, named after a French physician, Joseph Ignace Guillotin, who proposed its use in 1789.
		French Revolution, during which the guillotine was frequently used
		Louis XVI (1754-1793), king of France (1774-1792), who lost his throne in the French Revolution and was later beheaded by the revolutionary regime.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/searchdetail.aspx?q=guillotine&pg=1&grp=dict (104 words)

	Magazine Magnus - The Guillotine's Inventor
		Another myth about the guillotine is that Joseph Ignace Guillotin, the man it was named after, met his end under its heavy blade.
		Doctor Joseph Ignace Guillotin did not invent the guillotine; he merely recommended its use to the National Assembly.
		However, it is true that the guillotine was used in France as late as 1977 to execute Hamida Djandoubi for torture and murder.
	magazine.magnus.se /artikele.asp?artikel=giljotin (154 words)

	Explanation
		This piece of work was inspired by the article on the guillotine in the Encyclopedia Britannica, 1969 edition, which reads (in part) as follows: "[The guillotine] had fallen into general disuse on the continent until Joseph Ignace Guillotin, a French physician, suggested its use in modern times.
		At first the machine was called Louisette or La Petite Louison, but was later referred to as la guillotine, the name by which it since has been known both popularly and officially." -->
		After the machine had been used in several satisfactory experiments on dead bodies in the hospital of Bicetre, it was erected on the Place de Greve for the execution of the highwayman Nicolas Jacques Pelletier on April 25, 1792.
	www.betterdaysarecoming.com /poetry/explanation.html (128 words)

	THE CHAPEL PERILOUS: Décolleté ~ The Guillotine Gallery
		Voltaire laughing at the burning of the guillotine, 19th century
		Early drawing of a guillotine, late 18th century
		THE CHAPEL PERILOUS: Décolleté ~ The Guillotine Gallery
	www.sepulchritude.com /chapelperilous/decollete/revolt-lamachine.html (106 words)

	The Guillotine
		The guillotine got his name from the french doctor Joseph Ignace Guillotin, who proposed this device to the french National Assembly.
		In this century the guillotine would be sent from Paris to the prison by rail and is erected in a suitable place during the night.
		Most of the people condemened to death on the guillotine was during the french Terreur, only to be surpassed by the executions during the National-Socialist area in Germany (1933-1945).
	www.horrorseek.com /horror/drlarry/guiltine.htm (471 words)

	Quiz Results - June 2001
		Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, however, who first proposed the notion of a 'more humane' (sic) method of execution, died in 1814 of a carbuncle in his shoulder.
		But Dr Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, who didn't invent anything of note but did make some improvements on a device to chop people's heads off after getting some advice from King Louise, died of hypoxia after getting a carbuncle on his shoulder.
		Guillotine died of a carbuncle of the shoulder.
	www.skeptics.com.au /quiz/0106.htm (5879 words)

	AMERICAN MASON
		Joseph Ignace Guillotin, the French physician and member of the Constituent Assembly, who urged the use of a machine - sometimes called "the Maiden" - for the execution of death sentences.
		Joseph Ignace Guillotin Who urged Humane Way For Executions
		Guillotin was one of the founders of the Grand Orient of France, and was first the orator of the Chamber of the provinces, becoming president on October 27, 1775.
	www.americanmason.com /calendar.ihtml (4981 words)

	Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, S.O.S. ATTENTATS, Le Monde, Louis Pasteur, anthrax, bioterrorism, Michael Osterholm, Patrick Schlievert, Nobel Prize, University of Wine
		It should not be forgotten that the modern understanding of "terror" derives from "The Reign of Terror," of the French Revolution, the period of 1793-1794 when Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin's famous decapitation machine, designed as a "humane and egalitarian method of execution," was in full throttle.
		Dr. Guillotin's residence is a stop on a historical walk in the St. Germain district, which I undertook.
		Altogether the guillotine dispatched more than 15,000 heads by 1799.
	www.mbbnet.umn.edu /doric/paris.html (3319 words)

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