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GUILLOTIN, Joseph-Ignace (1738-1814). Autograph letter signed ('Guillotin') to M. Caumartin, Paris, rue du Faubourg St. Martin 177, 9 December 1806, concerning a debt of 5000 francs owed to him by M. Prevost, and asking help in obtaining repayment, 'Je suis père de famille et sans existense. Vous êtes par état defenseur de la veuve et de l'orphelin. Vous avez un titre contre Prevost', saying he is willing to accept repayment by instalments and to forego the interest, 1½ pages, 4to (discoloured, without integral leaf).
Guillotin, a doctor who had been a member of the commission to investigate animal magnetism introduced to France by Mesmer, as a deputy for Paris to the Estates General had organised the doctors and pharmacies of the city. His notariety as the inventor of an 'humane' method of capital punishment, based on machines previously in use in the Low Countries and Scotland, was forced upon him by the Assembly on 20 March 1792. The machine, known as 'Louisette', was first used on an highwayman, and on a political victim on 21 August 1792 in the place du Carousel, and the name 'Guillotine' was applied by exiled Frenchmen. Imprisoned during the Terror, Guillotin was saved by the fall of Robespierre.
Guillotin, a doctor who had been a member of the commission to investigate animal magnetism introduced to France by Mesmer, as a deputy for Paris to the Estates General had organised the doctors and pharmacies of the city. His notariety as the inventor of an 'humane' method of capital punishment, based on machines previously in use in the Low Countries and Scotland, was forced upon him by the Assembly on 20 March 1792. The machine, known as 'Louisette', was first used on an highwayman, and on a political victim on 21 August 1792 in the place du Carousel, and the name 'Guillotine' was applied by exiled Frenchmen. Imprisoned during the Terror, Guillotin was saved by the fall of Robespierre.