{"id":2981,"date":"2011-10-28T13:05:38","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T17:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/?p=2981"},"modified":"2012-03-05T13:22:02","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T18:22:02","slug":"the-guillotine-more-humane-than-hanging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/the-guillotine-more-humane-than-hanging\/","title":{"rendered":"The Guillotine: More Humane Than Hanging?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_2985\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/111028-Guillotine.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2985\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2985\" title=\"Guillotines\" src=\"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/111028-Guillotine-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2985\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Hulton Archive\/Getty Images<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Excerpt taken from the book\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/en\/the-story-of-french\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Story of French<\/em><\/a><em> <\/em>(Ch. 6)<\/h3>\n<p><em>Vandalisme<\/em> (vandalism), <em>anarchisme<\/em> (anarchism) and <em>terrorisme <\/em>(terrorism) all took their present meaning in English from French terms coined during the Revolution. Some terms disappeared, at least temporarily. <em>Parlement <\/em>(parliament) was abolished as a royalist institution in 1790 (it referred to the high tribunal in the <em>ancien regime<\/em>); after several generations it reappeared in France with the English meaning of the term.<\/p>\n<p>Commoners also influenced the language. In the early days of the Revolution, Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, Louis XVI\u2019s doctor, actively promoted reform of capital punishment. <!--more-->Before the Revolution only criminals of high rank and nobles were executed by decapitation, which was more humane than hanging, strangulation or quartering. Guillotin\u2019s machine for beheading<strong> <\/strong>was almost named the <em>louisette <\/em>or <em>louison<\/em>, after the surgeon Antoine Louis, who perfected it with the help of a German mechanic (Louis XVI himself suggested making the blade angular so it would cut better). In 1790 it was named the <em>guillotine,<\/em> though it was also known simply as <em>la veuve <\/em>(the widow). Guillotin was jailed during the Terror along with many high-profile reformers (on the basis that they were not revolutionary enough), but he escaped his invention and died a natural death in 1814.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt taken from the book\u00a0The Story of French (Ch. 6) Vandalisme (vandalism), anarchisme (anarchism) and terrorisme (terrorism) all took their present meaning in English from &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[51,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2981"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4188,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981\/revisions\/4188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}