how did the use of the guillotine connect to the French revolution?

Question

or how did it connect to the rise or fall of napoleon?

Answer 1

How did it connect?

The working class revolted, they dragged the aristocracy out and chopped their heads off in the guillotine.

It sounds to me more like disconnect doesn't it?




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Answer 2

Contrary to legend, Doctor Joseph Ignace Guillotine was not executed by his own machine; he lived until 1814, and died of biological causes.
Napoleon did not either way, condone or condemn the use of the guillotine. The last use was in 1977. The rise of Napoleon had nothing to connect him to the death machine, except to have those that stood in his way banished from this earth by decapitation. The guillotine had no bearing on the French revolution, other than in it's infamous use.

Answer 3

Kekionga gets 10 points for imagination! It was a DISconnect used during and after the French Revolution. Napoleon had nothing to do with it.

Answer 4

Very simple. The inventor, Dr. Guillotin wanted to make the death penalty less cruel and invented the guillotine, but it happened just shortly before the revolution began or at the beginning ( I am not sure exactly ) and then the revolutionaries began to use it to kill people. Even themselves finished at the guillotine

Answer 5

It was a measure of the democracy of the revolutionary government that all citizens who were sentenced to death were beheaded, rather than the nobility beheaded and the peasantry hanged as during the monarchy.

Answer 6

It was used as a swifter method of execution. Now more people could be executed than ever before. Also it was considered to be somewhat more humane in that they died very quickly, efficiently and supposedly with less pain.

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Answer 7

Napoleon, why would it? Now with Louis and his bunch, it disconnected their heads from their bodies.

Answer 8

Maximilian Robespierre liked to use them.