The Candle and the Guillotine
The Candle and the Guillotine

Author: Julie Patricia Johnson

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2020-05-01

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1789206774

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As in a number of France’s major cities, civil war erupted in Lyon in the summer of 1793, ultimately leading to a siege of the city and a wave of mass executions. Using Lyon as a lens for understanding the politics of revolutionary France, this book reveals the widespread enthusiasm for judicial change in Lyon at the time of the Revolution, as well as the conflicts that ensued between elected magistrates in the face of radical democratization. Julie Patricia Johnson’s investigation of these developments during the bloodiest years of the Revolution offers powerful insights into the passions and the struggles of ordinary people during an extraordinary time.

When the Guillotine Fell
When the Guillotine Fell

Author: Jeremy Mercer

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2008-06-24

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 1429936088

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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 into our own time. In 1974, Hamida Djandoubi brutally tortured 22 year-old Elisabeth Bousquet in an apartment in Marseille, putting cigarettes out on her body and lighting her on fire, finally strangling her to death in the Provencal countryside where he left her body to rot. In 1977, he became the last person executed by guillotine in France in a multifaceted case as mesmerizing for its senseless violence as it is though-provoking for its depiction of a France both in love with and afraid of The Foreigner. In a thrilling and enlightening account of a horrendous murder paired with the history of the guillotine and the history of capital punishment, Jeremy Mercer, a writer well known for his view of the underbelly of French life, considers the case of Hamida Djandoubi in the vast flow of blood that France's guillotine has produced. In his hands, France never looked so bloody...

The Guillotine and the Cross
The Guillotine and the Cross

Author: Warren Hasty Carroll

Publisher:

Published: 2004-10

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780931888458

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The persistent myths of the French Revolution--that the destruction of the old order brought unrivaled freedom and happiness for Europe--are shattered in this rousing study of the political violence and social turmoil that struck France in the late 18th century. In the midst of the terrors which unfettered Enlightenment ideology unleashed on the West, Christian hope arose anew to bring true light to one of history's darkest hours.

The Guillotine Squad
The Guillotine Squad

Author: Guillermo Arriaga

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2007-05-15

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 1416538771

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Full of Arriaga's trademark humor and irony present in his films and novels, The Guillotine Squad takes us back to one of the most exciting times in Mexican history. Feliciano Velasco y Borbolla de la Fuente, a lawyer, sells his famous invention, the guillotine, to Pancho Villa, the renowned insurgent general of the Mexican Revolution. Soon Feliciano finds himself immersed in the logic of this simultaneously bizarre, heroic, and cruel world of Villa's troops.

Dry guillotine
Dry guillotine

Author: R. Belbenoit

Publisher: Рипол Классик

Published: 1938

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 587278113X

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Illustration by a fellow prisoner. The text in this volume is based on the original translation from the French by Preston Rambo.

Robespierre
Robespierre

Author: John DiConsiglio

Publisher: Children's Press(CT)

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9780531185544

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Recounts the life of Maximilien Robespierre, including his childhood, his participation in the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, and his execution.

Guillotine, Its Legend and Lore
Guillotine, Its Legend and Lore

Author: Daniel Charles Gerould

Publisher:

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13:

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A study of the guillotine as a cultural artifact, examining its representation in the arts, both high and low, over the course of two centuries.

What a Way to Go
What a Way to Go

Author: Geoffrey Abbott

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2007-04-17

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 9780312366568

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"In this wickedly humorous book, Geoffrey Abbott describes the effectiveness of instruments of torture and reveals the macabre origins of familiar phrases such as 'gone west' or 'drawn a blank'. Covering everything from the preparation of the victim to the disposal of the body 'What a Way to Go' is everything you ever wanted to know about the ultimate penalty--and a lot you never thought to ask."--Publisher's description

Guillotine
Guillotine

Author: Robert Frederick Opie

Publisher: The History Press

Published: 1997-03-27

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0752496050

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The guillotine is a most potent image of revolutionary France, the tool whereby a whole society was 'redesigned'. Tracing the development of the guillotine, this book recounts the stories of famous executions, the lives of the executioners, and the research into whether the head retained consciousness after it was separated from the body.