The guillotine was first used during the French Revolution, with 16,000 people beheaded between 1793 and 1794, most notably King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette.

While the motto of the French revolution was “liberty ... For this she was branded a traitor and sent to the guillotine on 3 November 1793. You might be under the impression that once King ...

On January 21, 1793, Louis XVI was marched to the guillotine. His severed head ... would admit that his own support for the French Revolution was misguided: "Your prophecies," he wrote to Adams, ...

The beginning of the French revolution meant Marie-Thérèse had to take her faith underground and during that time she lost a number of her spiritual directors to the guillotine. Eventually she met ...

L egal experts across the political spectrum expressed alarm when the U.S. Supreme Court, ruling on Donald Trump’s claims to ...

Movies about the French Revolution are diverse, including costume dramas, horror films, comedies, and more, all set during ...

which in France was carried out by beheading with the guillotine – a practice dating back to the French Revolution of 1789. In years to come, however, he would be hailed for his integrity and ...

With radical groups rounding up the citizenry and imprisoning, executing and persecuting at will, entropy was the order of ...

Thousands would bring lunches (and plenty to drink) to public squares to prepare to witness executions, sometimes by guillotine. During the U.S. Civil War, there was an actual tailgate-like gathering.

metal–opera–Cameron Mackintosh mash-up tribute to … the guillotine," featuring "decapitated faces painted clown-white ...

In their modern forms they came about as a result of two events, the American Revolution in 1776 and the French Revolution in 1789. The French Revolution would have an enormous impact in Ireland ...