Antedating of "Guillotine"
Bapopik at AOL.COM
Bapopik at AOL.COM
Wed Dec 28 00:00:07 UTC 2005
1790? And the first person executed by guillotine was 1792??
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_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillotine_
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillotine)
On _April 25_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_25) , _1792_
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1792) , _highwayman_
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highwayman) Nicolas J. Pelletier became the first person executed by guillotine.
Antoine Louis, member of Académie Chirurgical, took the first practical steps
towards the creation of the guillotine. It was from his design that the
first guillotine was built. The guillotine was first called "Louison" or
"Louisette", but the press preferred Guillotine as it had a nicer ring to it. Antoine
Louis was born in Metz 1723, and he died in Paris in 1792.
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