WI: guillotine invented 10 years earlier

They would have been using "ole' choppy" for longer, i guess? :D
I don't see how this could affect anything. I don't see anything that can butterfly from there.

Now, if the Roman Empire had invented the guillotine... :p
 
Then what? I don't see even that doing much.

Clever invention for the era certainly, but hardly game changing in it's own right and it's not as if the Roman's weren't quite good at lopping off heads without it.

I know, i was just trying to be shocking.

But it would have certainly changed religious imagery if Guilly had been the preferred method of execution, for example, in Jesus' case :D

They did. It was used in Caligula.
Really?
 
It would have less of an association with the revolution as the ancien regime would have been using it for a while.
 

PhilippeO

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it will still be associated with revolution.

the ancient regime will likely still use it only to replace swords in execution of nobility. commoners will be hanged or died by other method.

the new regime after revolution will use it more extensively, since 'everybody is equal' means the right to die by sword/guilotine will be granted to commoners.
 
the ancient regime will likely still use it only to replace swords in execution of nobility. commoners will be hanged or died by other method.
Guillotin was pushing for a bill to uniformize all the executions, regardles of the birth of the criminal and regardless of the crime, as long as it was deserving of the death penalty. His device was meant to make the executions more humane for all.
 
Guillotin was pushing for a bill to uniformize all the executions, regardles of the birth of the criminal and regardless of the crime, as long as it was deserving of the death penalty. His device was meant to make the executions more humane for all.

So what? Guillotin wasn't a noble so in Pre-revolutionary France no one important would care. If invented earlier, the guillotine would definitely be a privilege (sort of) for the nobility.
 
So what? Guillotin wasn't a noble so in Pre-revolutionary France no one important would care. If invented earlier, the guillotine would definitely be a privilege (sort of) for the nobility.

Oh! well, damn me, i have been confused about Guillotin since i first heard of him! :eek:
I thought he was a noble, and that the changes he proposed were in line with the illustrated despotism that was fashionable back then.
 
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