guillotine

There is only one cure for grey hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.

So many of the things I invented I honestly did for fun, out of some perverse game of whether or not they__ work, whether people would use them. I mean, it was like setting up a guillotine in the public square. You don__ expect a thousand people to line up to put their heads in it

But here I should imagine the most terrible part of the whole punishment is, not the bodily pain at all__ut the certain knowledge that in an hour, then in ten minutes, then in half a minute, then now__his very instant__our soul must quit your body and that you will no longer be a man__nd that this is certain, certain!

You would more probably have gone to the guillotine,' replied Sir Tristram, depressingly matter of

They call me a tyrant . . . One arrives at a tyrant's throne by the help of scoundrels . . . What faction do I belong to? You yourselves. What is that faction which, since the Revolution began, has crushed the factions and swept away hireling traitors? It is you, it is the people, it is the principles of the Revolution.

Sometimes a revolution turns into an actual government, or at the very least an actual way of life that contrasts with days past like blood on snow. Such was the case in France, where even as the guillotine released a steady river of gore, Royalist insurrections were suppressed by what had become a sophisticated military.In Toulon, the Royalist insurrection in 1793 led to an actual siege by republicans, spearheaded by none other than Napoleon Bonaparte. The Royalists in Toulon, supported by the British and Spanish, were feared by the republicans as an existential threat to every hope and promise of the revolution. For months there were bombardments, cannon fire that made the windows in the prison tremble.