guillotining

The novel concludes with the guillotining of Sydney Carton.

The last guillotining in France was that of torture-murderer Hamida Djandoubi on September 10, 1977.

He was also responsible for the first guillotining of women since the late 19th century, including, famously, an abortionist named Marie-Louise Giraud in 1943.

Gillray responded with a strong anti-republican cartoon, showing the guillotining of Louis XVI.

On November 13 he performed his first guillotining as chief in Marseilles when he executed the police killer Marcel Ythier.

Long after America's Wild West was tamed, Vila was the scene of the occasional gunfight and public guillotining."

Charles-Henri (1740-93), chief public executioner under the ancien régime, who continued in office during the Revolution, and who carried out the guillotining of Louis XVI.

'We're going to 'ave the best view of the guillotining,' Stafford said with apparent satisfaction to one of his mates, 'an' yer know the chap that gets the best view?

He recalled the closing of churches, the killing of Paris's Archbishop, the guillotining of nuns, and the persecution of priests for refusing to swear loyalty to the revolutionary Government.

This was a prelude to the guillotining of his successor Louis XVI in the same site, renamed "Place de la Révolution" (at present Place de la Concorde).

Tallien's methodology of subjugation at Bordeaux has been described as "fear and flour": the guillotining of Girondist leaders and exploitation of food shortages by withholding bread from the already-hungry province.

Yves Montand asks me to advise Gingrich that Robespierre ended just like Louis XVI, except that his jaw was so painfully shattered that he probably welcomed the guillotining.

As a Jacobin extremist he votes for the guillotining of the King, but he is also a soldier and, as the revolution is misled into autocracy, he becomes a general in the Napoleonic armies.

Meyssonnier performed, among many others, the last guillotining of a woman (Madeleine Mouton in 1948) in Algeria, which was the second-to-last female guillotining in France and her colonies.

It is based on Georges Bernanos's play, which used the guillotining of Carmelite nuns during the French Revolution as the means of exploring the collision between mystical faith and the chaotic brutality of the temporal world.

After the stated aim of the National Convention to export revolution, the guillotining of Louis XVI of France, and the French opening of the Scheldt, a European military coalition was formed and set up against France.

Chamberlain sought to stem the feared exodus by securing a major concession: local authorities would be given the discretion over the issue of rate aid to voluntary schools, yet even this was renounced before the guillotining of the Bill and its passage through Parliament in December 1902.

But because the libretto is trying to cover so much ground, from the hungry masses and the gluttonous court before Bastille Day to the guillotining of first king, then queen, the narrative imposes a kind of declamatory recitative that leaves little room for soaring arias or even catchy duets and trios.

The "Commission of Peoples' Justice" got off to a slower start, beginning its work only on 21 October: it ordered the guillotining of 79 people including three of the moderates who had replaced Chalier back at the end of May, Bénami, Coindre and Judge Ampère.

In this capacity, he was one of the principal actors of the Reign of Terror, and played an important role in the denunciations and the guillotining of Fabre d'Églantine, François Chabot, Georges Danton, and finally Maximilien Robespierre (preparing the way for the Thermidorian Reaction).