Vous connaissez l'histoire de la guillotine française prêtée à la Belgique pendant la 1ère guerre mondiale ? Guillermo Guiz vous la raconte. | France Inter

The guillotine was introduced during the height of the French Revolution, an era demanding equality and justice. This machine was considered a humane form of capital punishment compared to the existing methods. Its design, attributed to Dr. Joseph Guillotin and Tobias Schmidt, was intended to make execution quick and painless. The first person to experience its blade was a highwayman named Nicolas Jacques Pelletier in Paris. The crowd that gathered was expecting a spectacle but was left in silen