When the Guillotine Fell: The Bloody Beginning and Horrifying End to France's River of Blood, 1791-1977
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How long did the guillotine's blade hang over the heads of French criminals? Was it abandoned in the late 1800s? Did French citizens of the early days of the twentieth century decry its brutality? No. The blade was allowed to do its work well into our own time. In 1974, Hamida Djandoubi brutally tortured 22 year-old Elisabeth Bousquet in an apartment in Marseille, putting cigarettes out on her body and lighting her on fire, finally strangling her...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0312357915
ISBN13:9780312357917
Release Date:June 2008
Publisher:St. Martin's Press
Length:312 Pages
Weight:1.00 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.1" x 8.6"
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