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CONTENTS.
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| The Duke de Liancourt | 21 |
| New penal code | 22 |
| Difficulty as to mode of beheading | 23 |
| M. Duport de Tertre's letter to the Assembly | 24 |
| Sanson's 'Observations on Execution by Beheading,' &c. | 25 |
| Silence as to a machine | 27 |
| Decree of the Assembly | 28 |
| M. Louis's 'Report on the Mode of Decollation' | 28 |
| Guillotin consulted by Rœderer | 31 |
| His imprisonment and subsequent obscurity | 33 |
| His death | 33 |
| English mode of decapitation | 34 |
| The Halifax Gibbet | 35 |
| The Scottish Maiden | 36 |
| Italian machine in 1702 | 39 |
| Curious coat-of-arms | 40 |
| Randle Holme's notice of ancient modes of execution | 40 |
| Ancient instruments for decapitation | 41 |
| Execution of de Montmorenci | 46 |
| Laquiante's machine | 47 |
| Estimate for constructing Louis's machine | 47 |
| The Guillotine canonized | 48 |
| Schmidt the inventor of the instrument adopted | 49 |
| Experiments | 50 |
| The Guillotine's first victim | 51 |
| Its general success | 52 |
| Adoption of the name | 53 |
| Voltaire's description of his countrymen | 54 |
| The Tenth of August | 54 |
| First Revolutionary Tribunal | 55 |
