Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin

Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin Stock Photo
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GL Archive / Alamy Stock Photo

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2072 x 2734 px | 17.5 x 23.1 cm | 6.9 x 9.1 inches | 300dpi

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1790

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Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin (28 May 1738 – 26 March 1814) French physician and freemason who proposed on 10 October 1789 the use of a device to carry out death penalties in France, as a less painful method of execution. While he did not invent the guillotine, and in fact opposed the death penalty, his name became an eponym for it. The actual inventor of the prototype was Antoine Louis.