Guillotine first used

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First use of the guillotine, as a humane way of executing a forger.

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Editors. "Guillotine first used". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 01 February 2010
[http://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=4251, accessed 19 June 2013.]


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  1. French Revolution and French Revolutionary Wars: 1789-1802