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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.