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GUILLOTIN, JOSEPH-IGNACE

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GUILLOTIN, JOSEPH-IGNACE
(1738 - 1814) French physician and politician, a defender of capital punishment who proposed the use of the beheading machine later named after him and put to extensive use during the French Revolution. Rare D.S. "Guillotin" as Deputy to the Constituent Assembly of 1789, 1p. legal folio, [Paris], 1790, a certified copy of a letter sent by the inhabitants of French Senegal to the President which is to be entered into the record of the Assembly. One tiny corner chip and a few lightly-toned spots, one under signature barely detracting, overall very good.