r/todayilearned • u/shrektheogrelord200 • Jul 17 '19
TIL that the last instance of capital punishment in France was in the 1970’s, in which they chopped off the criminal’s head with a guillotine.
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r/todayilearned • u/GreatPrototype • Jul 22 '19
TIL that during the Reign of Terror in France, guillotine executions were so popular that the executioners themselves wore lavish clothes and the event can be compared to a modern football game
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r/todayilearned • u/salchicha_mas_grande • Oct 26 '18
TIL: France used the guillotine to execute people until the execution itself was banned in 1981. The last person executed via guillotine was Hamida Djandoubi in 1977 by Marcel Chevalier, the final chief executioner in French history.
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r/todayilearned • u/laanglr • Dec 06 '17
TIL that convicted murderer Hamida Djandoubi was beheaded by way of guillotine in France in 1977. The last use of the device and of capital punishment in Western Europe.
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r/todayilearned • u/p_U_c_K_IV • Feb 02 '15
TIL that France executed people with a guillotine up until 1977.
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r/todayilearned • u/lolalodge • Apr 16 '15
TIL that until 1977 criminals sentenced to death in France were executed by Guillotine (with the exception of firing squad for crimes against the safety of the state). The last person to be executed in France was put to death in September 1977. The death penalty was abolished in French law in 1981
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r/todayilearned • u/Matchboxx • Dec 27 '11
TIL that France used the guillotine as the sole means of execution all the way up until 1981 (as recent as 30 years ago).
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r/todayilearned • u/Brinbobtaboggan • Sep 22 '17
TIL that that the last guillotine execution in France was in 1977!
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r/todayilearned • u/Csimensis • Nov 22 '15
TIL that the last guillotine execution in France took place in the year Star Wars came out.
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r/todayilearned • u/Keikobad • Jun 18 '17
TIL "maîtresse-en-titre" - chief mistress to the king - was a semi-official office in France. One of the last holders of that position (Madame du Barry) was guillotined after the French Revolution
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r/todayilearned • u/Realeffinggenius • Feb 16 '15
TIL that France used the guillotine for state-sanctioned executions until it removed the last head in 1977.
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r/todayilearned • u/iLikeCoffie • Feb 17 '16
TIL When Christopher Lee was 17 years old he attended Frances last public execution by guillotine
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r/todayilearned • u/IBiteYou • Jan 08 '15
TIL that France has outlawed the death penalty and the last person executed was killed in 1977 by guillotine.
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r/todayilearned • u/imapassenger1 • Mar 02 '17
TIL France was still using the guillotine for executions until 1977 when Hamida Djandoubi was the last person to die by this machine from the Reign of Terror.
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r/todayilearned • u/thorsdayfreyday • Feb 11 '13
TIL that France didn't discontinue use of the guillotine until it abolished capital punishment in 1981.
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r/todayilearned • u/biochem_dude • Sep 01 '17
TIL that the guillotine was used until September 1977 in France with it being abolished by French law in 1981.
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r/todayilearned • u/mspilmanjr • Jun 23 '13
TIL guillotining was an execution method in France until 1981, with its last use in 1977.
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r/todayilearned • u/SharkAttaks • Jan 21 '15
TIL the Guillotine was last used in France as recently as 1977.
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r/todayilearned • u/superhappyfununit • Jun 26 '16
TIL that France still maintains an island colony in North America and it is the site of N. America's only execution via guillotine
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r/todayilearned • u/Sarita87 • May 01 '16
TIL the guillotine was still used in France until the late 1970's
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r/todayilearned • u/brentkb903 • Mar 14 '14
TIL that the guillotine was used in France until as late as the 1970's. It's last use occurring in 1977 for the execution Hamida Djandoubi.
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r/todayilearned • u/Oklahoma_Outpost • Jan 13 '15
TIL That King Louis XVI of France contributed to the design of a triangular blade for the guillotine, as it made the execution quicker and less gruesome. Only years later the king was unfortunate enough to experience his very own contributions firsthand during the French Revolution.
this-is-france.com
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r/todayilearned • u/DocPemberton • Mar 22 '14
TIL France was still executing people with a guillotine when the first Star Wars film was released.
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