A demonstration of the guillotine - French Revolution

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[WolfySnackrib]

For a moment there I thought the king was going to say "Just a suggestion. Make it bigger."

[spedia]

The irony given that King Louis helped design the tool that killed him.

[Whitmord]

Note that this scene is a simple urban legend. Louis XVI never brought the idea of the blade in a bevel.
A noter que cette scène est une simple légende urbaine. Jamais Louis XVI n’a apporté l’idée de la lame en biseau.

[VinceHere]

Congratulations Louis XVI, you’ve become the architect of your own fate.

[stjepanmarkofranc]

First, physician Joseph Ignace Guillotin did not invent guillotine. He was in the National Assembly only suggested the same way executions for all, regardless of social status and class, which would be painless. Otherwise he was the opponent of the death penalty. In his opinion, the thread is not allowed to perform publicly, but in the prison yard (without the presence of other prisoners, only the executioner and some experts and guard). The first draft was in fact made by a medical pathologist Antoine Louis. This is this model in a video clip. The version that we know was made by the builder of pianos and harpsichords Tobias Schmidt from Germany. Third, the idea of a guillotine was liked by the king, but he did not give any suggestions for her modification

[lucam]

As said in the description, there are many errors in this scene. Dr. Guillotin was'nt ever involved in the realization of the machine. Luis XVI never suggested anything about the blade. The legend arose from the fact that the blueprints of the Guillotine were designed by Dr Antoine Luis, secretary to the Académie Royale de Chirurgie and the mechanism was realized by Tobias Schmidt, an harpsichord maker. It was Antoine Luis (and not Luis XVI) who realized that the blade should be made triangular. In other words, it was a misunderstanding about which "Luis" was truly involved. From the name Antoine Luis came various names of the machine: it was called the "Luisette" or the "Luison" ("the daughter of dr. Luis"), but finally the name was derived from the man who proposed that the capital punishment should be carried out by decapitation, and the machine became the Guillotine.

[HooPhartd]

I thought he was gonna give him crap about cutting his cigar in half. Lol!

[markrdavis]

Isn't it interesting that Louis the 16th was looking at the device that he will be guillotined by and his head raised to the people on January 21st 1793.

[marguskiis]

Dr. Joseph Guillotin never invented the execution tool, he was against the capital penalty at all. He advocated a painless execution and was pro automatic axe as the most painless method. Actually Antoine Louis invented the classical guillotine 1789.

[hyunsungjung]

Why the heck is this vieo so satisfying....

[marcox]

“Instead of being crescent-shaped the blade would cut better if it were triangular and designed like a saw”

And it’s still not good enough to slice off his head in one go

How ironic

[Lavastorm]

i kinda thought we would see it cutting a real person's head off... but a cigar works too

[shaquilleoatmeal]

robespierre was finally killed using this too :O

[rr.potolsky]

A few years later he is the one on that Mini Machine.

[marcox]

Isn’t it ironic that he was executed with the same execution method he approved

[petercdowney]

That early design seen in the video is clearly based on the Halifax Gibbet!

[matheushbs]

It can be seen that the idea behind it is to find a more practical means of execution, which inflicts less "guilt" in the conscience of the executor, not less pain to the condemned. I believe that the same thing happened in Nazism, they left the shooting and went to the gas chambers because it was less painful. You got rid of hundreds of convicts at once, saving executioners the pain of taking lives, one at a time. Then I remember a famous philosopher from the North of Westeros, Lord Eddard of House Stark, and his most celebrated statement: "Yet our way is the older way. The blood of the First Men still flows in the veins of the Starks, and we hold to the belief that the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man’s life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.
One day, Bran, you will be Robb’s bannerman, holding a keep of your own for your brother and your king, and justice will fall to you. When that day comes, you must take
no pleasure in the task, but neither must you look away. A ruler who hides behind paid
executioners soon forgets what death is."

[PhaseDragonia]

So _that's_ how you pronounce his name!

[ilovetweek]

ah yes a virtually invaluable part of the french revolution

[cinemaipswich]

Why did they call it "Madam" Guillotine? Was it though that a "woman's touch" was kind and gentle? What was the fate of His Majesty?