Ten Thousand a Year

Ten Thousand a year
‘Now boys, before we go take out your pens
Don’t worry, you won’t have to write a lot!
I’m going to give you each a little card.
Now on the bottom corner write your name
And – no discussion now – on one side write
The very first idea that comes to mind
Whenever I say the word…Guillotine!’
He [...]

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Madame Guillotine

I’ve been doing some research about the guillotine for a piece of writing. Which regime do you associate with using the guillotine? France during the Jacobin terror, right? Robespierre and all that. Well, not a bit of it. It turns out the Nazis were quite fond of it. Between 1941 and 1943, they sent 20,000 [...]

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