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Author Topic: Why was the guillotine invented? --Kentuck  (Read 4596 times)

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Re: Why was the guillotine invented? --Kentuck
« Reply #50 on: August 20, 2012, 09:29:13 AM »
Quote from: Karin on August 20, 2012, 08:39:17 AM
I just want to add, that the DUmmies practiced one of their most annoying habits in their thread.  Everybody answers Kentuck's question, in the same way, without bothering to read the comments that came before.  So, you get 20,000 posts of "for a humane way to kill."   Why don't they read first? 

They are too intellectually vacant and too full of baseless arrogance to care what others have said.
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Re: Why was the guillotine invented? --Kentuck
« Reply #51 on: August 20, 2012, 10:23:32 AM »
Quote from: obumazombie on August 19, 2012, 06:55:14 PM
Not to mention France was somewhat of a reliable ally during the Revolutionary War.

Indeed, the Continental forces could not have won at Yorktown but for the French Navy sealing off the British forces from relief, I believe the French also had significant land forces present there too, but off-hand I don't know if they were marine contingents landed from the fleet, or army forces transported there.
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Re: Why was the guillotine invented? --Kentuck
« Reply #52 on: August 20, 2012, 12:12:40 PM »
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6. Actually, kind of a funny story

The guy who invented it actually had his head chopped off by one during the french revolution.

No he didn't.
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Re: Why was the guillotine invented? --Kentuck
« Reply #53 on: August 20, 2012, 12:26:41 PM »
Quote from: Rebel on August 20, 2012, 12:12:40 PM
No he didn't.
Dr. Guillotin died in Paris in 1814 of natural causes (old age).
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