miscellanea

dédédu77 a écrit:

No problem, I forgive you

Here is the death certificate of the famous french poisoner :

http://site.voila.fr/essaidededu77/ACTE_JEGADO.jpg

well,well
something for good night. German Jacobin and Bethoven's mentor...
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eulogius_Schneider
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:Eulogius.jpg

Guillotine as inspiration for artists

The hermitage.St.Petersburg
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Nicolas Tauynay
http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/fcgi-bin/db2www/fullSize.mac/fullSize?selLang=English&dlViewId=J$ZMTF1QPTP5V322&size=big&selCateg=picture&dlCategId=A$DEPT2HVJ3G94FI

Museum Carnavalet Paris
Raymont Bracassat :Giuseppe Fieschi, après son exécution
http://noe-education.org/feschi.jpg

to be continued...

Theodore Gericault . Art Insitute of Chicago
Head of the guillotined man.

http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~janzb/courses/phi2010/art/gericaultheads.JPG

Antoine Wiertz(Wiertz museum Bruxelles?)

Guillotined head

http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/art/19th/belgian/wiertz04.jpg

[quote="piotr"]Guillotine as inspiration for artists

The hermitage.St.Petersburg
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Nicolas Tauynay
http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/fcgi-bin/db2www/fullSize.mac/fullSize?selLang=English&dlViewId=J$ZMTF1QPTP5V322&size=big&selCateg=picture&dlCategId=A$DEPT2HVJ3G94FI

General Custine(general moustache)

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Philippe_de_Custine
http://les.guillotines.free.fr/custine.jpg

Museum Carnavalet-Paris
Pierre-Antoine Demachy"Une exécuttion capitale place de la Révolution"

http://www.insecula.com/oeuvre/photo_ME0000065264.html

Maximilien Robespierre-Death mask

http://www.diagnopsy.com/Revolution/images/0568.jpg

dédédu77 a écrit:

La guillotine à Nimes :

http://idata.over-blog.com/0/19/10/65/nimes-13.jpg

http://www.nimausensis.com/Nimes/GuillotineNimes.htm

Execution of the Louis XVI

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16962/16962-h/images/execution.jpg

dédédu77 a écrit:

The link doesn't work, Piotr

hm.... really doesn't work. I lost it.
Maybe try later

Well ,a new link
Death of the Duke Montmorency
http://tolosaoutsita.free.fr/images/Histoire/Histoire%2005S.jpg

a kind of ancient "widow"

dédédu77 a écrit:

A proof that the guillotine is an improvement and not an invention of the French Revolution.

For the defective link, maybe in this site ?

http://www.gutenberg.org/

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I hope now is OK.
Old, good imageshack
http://img250.imageshack.us/my.php?image=execution3qr.jpg

The New York Times (August 1985)

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C02EFDC1038F931A3575BC0A963948260

Last letter of Charlotte Corday
http://www.diagnopsy.com/Revolution/images/0416.jpg

"The widow" and French antilles

http://www.ghcaraibe.org/bul/ghc017/p0144.html

a few pictures from "bagnes"
attention -one is offensive&shocking
http://voyageenguyane.free.fr/bagnes.htm