When the Guillotine Fell: The Bloody Beginning and Horrifying End to France's River of Blood, 1791--1977 by Jeremy Mercer

When the Guillotine Fell: The Bloody Beginning and Horrifying End to France's River of Blood, 1791--1977

Jeremy Mercer

320 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history true crime dark informative slow-paced
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How long did the guillotine’s blade hang over the heads of French criminals?  Was it abandoned in the late 1800s?  Did French citizens of the early days of the twentieth century decry its brutality?  No. The blade was allowed to do its work well i...

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