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- 1738
- Died
- 1814
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- 9
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- Quaestio medico-chirurgica ... An ossa prope articulum fracta, post calli genesin, leni motu exercenda?
- Pétition des citoyens domiciliés à Paris, du 8 décembre 1788
- Pétition des citoyens domiciliés à Paris
- Quaestio medica, quodlibetariis disputationibus manè discutienda in scholis medicorum, die Martis qnarto [sic] mensis Decembris, anno Domini M.DCC.LXX. M. Josepho-Ignatio Guillotin, doctore medico, praeside. An praeter genitalia sexus inter se discrepent?
- Lettre d'un me decin d'Alsace
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Joseph-Ignace Guillotin ( French: [ʒozɛf iɲas ɡijɔtɛ̃]) (28 May 1738 – 26 March 1814) was a French physician, politician, and freemason who proposed on 10 October 1789 the use of a device to carry out executions in France, as a less painful method of execution than existing methods. Although he did not invent the guillotine and opposed the death penalty, his name became an eponym for it. The actual inventor of the prototype was a French physician, Antoine Louis.
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1738 births1814 deaths18th-century French inventors18th-century French Jesuits18th-century French medical doctors18th-century French politiciansBurials at Père Lachaise CemeteryFormer JesuitsFrench FreemasonsGuillotineMembers of the National Constituent Assembly (France)People from Saintes, Charente-Maritime