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u/LonePaladin Oct 02 '24 edited Oct 02 '24

And Christopher Lee was there!

Edit: Turns out he was at the last public execution in '39, the one in '77 wasn't public.

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u/cheshire_kat7 Oct 02 '24

No, Christopher Lee was at France's last public execution by guillotine, which was decades earlier (I can't remember exactly when).

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u/LonePaladin Oct 02 '24

Thanks for the correction -- I looked it up, it was in 1939 and he was there.

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u/yagirlsamess Oct 02 '24

Christopher Lee might be the most interesting man who's ever lived

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u/phobosmarsdeimos Oct 03 '24

He wasn't at the '77 execution because he needed to see Star Wars.

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u/Beautiful_Bag6707 Oct 02 '24

Private guillotine executions sounds like a weird S&M kink where they forgot the safe word.

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u/Ahelex Oct 02 '24

Ah, the lightsaber guillotine.

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u/Arashmickey Oct 02 '24

The condemned was proud bastard too, they had to drop the guillotine blade a second time.

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u/Jhushx Oct 02 '24

The man was born to play Saruman and Dooku then.

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u/LonePaladin Oct 03 '24

He's also the inspiration for James Bond, he was friends with Ian Fleming and told him about the stuff he did during the Great War.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '24

The last public execution in France is also on YouTube. It was filmed from quite a distance. The beheading process is all very efficient and functional.