Joseph-Ignace Guillotin
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Joseph-Ignace Guillotin was a French physician, politician, and freemason who proposed on 10 October 1789 the use of a device to carry out executions in France, as a less painful method of execution t
Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin (Musée Carnavalet, Paris)
Quittance of the Société Galvanique, issued 20. February 1803, signed by Joseph-Ignace Guillotin as President
Antoine Louis
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Antoine Louis was a French surgeon and physiologist. He was originally trained in medicine by his father, a sergeant major at a local military hospital. As a young man he moved to Paris, where he serv
Joseph-Ignace Guillotin
…not invent the guillotine and opposed the death penalty, his name became an eponym for it. The actual inventor of the prototype was a French physician, Antoine Louis. Guillotin was born on 28 May 1738 in Saintes, France, the second son of Joseph-Alexandre Guillotin and Catherine Agatha Martin. Legend has it that he…
Professor Antoine Louis in 1778
Mémoire contre la légitimité des naissances prétendues tardives, 1764