| Alexis' maternal grandfather, Malherbes, was guillotined, and his father Herve escaped with his life only because of the overthrow of Robespierre. |
| It guillotined so many people because it was a way of cleansing and purifying France, imbuing her with Virtue. |
| Charles Clarke has also said at the start of the debate that it will be guillotined. |
| Robespierre dared not risk the countercharge of leniency to a former peer, and Biron was guillotined. |
| In the name of the Rights of Man, or under that banner, tens of thousands were imprisoned and at least seventeen thousand guillotined between 1792 and 1794 alone. |
| In 1943, a woman was guillotined for having carried out an abortion. |