tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post2429967094129100488..comments2024-03-26T12:19:52.801-04:00Comments on Tea at Trianon: The Guillotineelena maria vidalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17129629173535139807noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post-71821662933702632942010-04-13T08:47:06.136-04:002010-04-13T08:47:06.136-04:00Elena Maria, you are most definitely correct. That...Elena Maria, you are most definitely correct. That such a so called civilized nation would lower itself to such barbarisms; but then again look at Nazi Germany, the former Soviet Union and today STILL in mainland China; the so called "Peoples Reublic." It sounds like the First French Republic!lara77https://www.blogger.com/profile/12595738597369639417noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post-11669913927939477962010-04-12T19:06:50.734-04:002010-04-12T19:06:50.734-04:00Remember, Lara, how over in Lyon they drowned vict...Remember, Lara, how over in Lyon they drowned victims en masse. I have no doubt that if gas chambers had been available the Revolutionaries would have made use of them.elena maria vidalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17129629173535139807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post-78167978460544441852010-04-12T15:11:24.138-04:002010-04-12T15:11:24.138-04:00I thought that if maybe this vile machine had not ...I thought that if maybe this vile machine had not been invented the Republic would have not killed so many French People. Then I realized they would have set up shooting squads; either way many innocents still died. I cannot see or hear about that evil mechanism without thinking of all the innocents murdered during a most dark time in France's history.lara77https://www.blogger.com/profile/12595738597369639417noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post-52560846569061298182010-04-11T07:39:38.712-04:002010-04-11T07:39:38.712-04:00If I remember my college anatomy correctly, the Me...If I remember my college anatomy correctly, the Medulla Oblongata or Brain Stem carries the message from the brain down through the Nervous System and even after the severing of the head the message continues through the Nervous System. There are anecdotal reports of the body of guillotined persons doing strange things.Julygirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08113475639726723076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post-54780265143573653052010-04-11T06:08:58.843-04:002010-04-11T06:08:58.843-04:00A book - readily available via Amazon and eBay, I ...A book - readily available via Amazon and eBay, I should think - called <i>A History of the Guillotine</i>, by my late friend and compatriot Alister Kershaw, has comprehensive details of this sort of thing. Not for the squeamish (least of all the photographs).R Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17624645479033609279noreply@blogger.com