Joseph-Ignace Guillotin (1738-1814). French physician and deputy. On 2 May 1789, he became one of the 10 deputies from Paris to the Estates General of 1789, and was secretary of the organisation from June 1789 to October 1791. On 10 October 1798, he proposed the use of a device for carrying out executions in France, as a less painful method of execution than those in existence up to that date. Although he did not invent the guillotine and was opposed to the death penalty, his name became eponymous for it. Portrait. Engraving by Pannemaker. "History of the French Revolution". Volume I, 1876.

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