This title presents a history of public executions in France from the medieval spectacle of suffering to the invention of the Revolutionary guillotine, up to the last public execution in 1939. Paul Friedland explores why spectacles of public execution were staged, as well as why thousands of spectators came to watch them
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on July 9, 2012)
