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La guillotine, une invention bien française
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La guillotine, une invention bien française

Sep 13, 2021
1h 0m
★ 7.0

Overview

Forty years after the abolition of the death penalty in France, voted on September 18, 1981, the guillotine remains in the collective imagination as the instrument of the death sentence. This machine, developed during the Revolution to render justice more equal, was presented as progress. Over time, opinion has been divided on the subject of the death penalty, the guillotine becoming the object of man's cruelty, a remnant of an archaic way of dispensing justice and fuelling the many debates around the death penalty and its abolition.

Genres

Documentary
TV Movie
History

Production Companies

Adamis Production

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