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Mesmer's ideas became so influential that King Louis XVI of France appointed two commissions to investigate mesmerism ; one was led by Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, the other, led by Benjamin Franklin, included Bailly and Lavoisier.
" The statement quickly became a popular joke, and few days after the debate a comic song about Guillotin and " his " machine circulated, forever tying his name to it.

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Lom wrote two historical novels, one on the playwright Christopher Marlowe ( Enter a Spy: The Double Life of Christopher Marlowe, 1971 ) and another on the French Revolution ( Dr. Guillotin: The Eccentric Exploits of an Early Scientist, 1992 ).

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From its first use, there has been debate as to whether the guillotine always provided a swift death as Guillotin had hoped.
Despite this proposal, Guillotin was opposed to the death penalty and hoped that a more humane and less painful method of execution would be the first step toward a total abolition of the death penalty.

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* 1738 – Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, French physician ( d. 1814 )
* March 26 – Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, French inventor ( born 1738 )
On 10 October 1789, Doctor Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, a French physician, stood before the National Assembly and proposed the following six articles in favour of the reformation of capital punishment:
Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin () ( 28 May 1738, Saintes – 26 March 1814, Paris ) was a French physician who proposed on 10 October 1789 the use of a device to carry out death penalties in France.
After Joseph-Ignace Guillotin publicly proposed his new execution machine, Sanson delivered a memorandum of unique weight and insight to the French Assembly.

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Joseph-Ignace Guillotin was also on the committee.
In 1784, when Franz Mesmer began to publicize his theory of " animal magnetism ", which was considered offensive by many, Louis XVI appointed a commission to investigate it and Guillotin was appointed as a member of it along with Benjamin Franklin and others.
As a member of the assembly Guillotin mainly directed his attention towards medical reform, and it was on 10 October 1789, during a debate on capital punishment, that he proposed that " the criminal shall be decapitated ; this will be done solely by means of a simple mechanism.
) Dr. Guillotin assumed that if a fair system was established where the only method of capital punishment was death by mechanical decapitation, then the public would feel far more appreciative of their rights.
Towards the end of the Reign of Terror, Guillotin was arrested and imprisoned because of a letter from Count Mere, who, about to be executed, commended his wife and children to the care of the doctor.
By coincidence, a person named Guillotin was indeed executed by the guillotine – he was J. M. V.
This coincidence may have contributed to erroneous statements that Guillotin was put to death on the machine that bears his name ; however, in reality, Guillotin died in Paris in 1814 of natural causes, and is now buried in the Père-Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.
In 1784, an investigation was commissioned in Paris by King Louis XVI which included American ambassador Benjamin Franklin, chemist Antoine Lavoisier and physician Joseph-Ignace Guillotin ( later the popularizer of the guillotine ).

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In December 1788 Guillotin drafted a pamphlet entitled " Petition of the Citizens Living in Paris ", concerning the proper constitution of the States-General.

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Three of the board members include a founding father of modern chemistry Antoine Lavoisier, Benjamin Franklin and an expert in pain control Joseph-Ignace Guillotin.
Portrait of Joseph-Ignace Guillotin | Dr. Guillotin
Guillotin composed an essay to obtain the degree of master of arts from the University of Bordeaux.
On 1 December 1789, Guillotin made an unfortunate remark during a follow-up speech to the Assembly about capital punishment.
Guillotin, a doctor of Lyons.

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Suddenly the Spanish became an English in which only one word emerged with clarity and precision, `` son of a bitch '', sometimes hyphenated by vicious jabs of a beer bottle into Johnson's quivering ribs.
He had his voice under control again: no one became aware that he was terrified by what had just happened to him.
Then he became involved in a ruckus remarkably similar to the one in Plymouth.
But Curtis poured over $1 million into it and in time it again became one of the most popular weeklies of the country.
After all, when one has asked whatever became of old Joe and Charlie when one has inquired who it was Sue Brown married and where it is they now live when questions are asked and answered about families and children, and old professors when the game and its probable outcome has been exhausted that does it.
The only one who would have him was his cripple, the strange unhappy woman who became his wife.
Eventually such incidents became more sporadic, and more sharply demarcated from her day-after-day behavior, and in one particular session, after several minutes of such behavior -- which, as usual, went on without any accompanying words from her -- she asked, eagerly, `` Did you see Granny ''??
This meant, concretely, that the patient could not read at all without making writing-like movements of the head or body, became easily confused by `` hasher marks '' inserted between hand-written words and thus confused the mark for one of the letters, and could recognize a simple straight line or a curved one only by tracing it.
When it became obvious that he could stay inside no longer, taking a thousand to one chance Gonzales rushed outside, square against the muzzle of a Winchester.
His problem then became one of restraining the American fighters who wanted to clean out the Vermejo by force immediately.
In 1846 Matthew B. Goodwin, jeweler and watchmaker, became the town's first telegrapher in a dwelling he built for himself and his business `` two doors north of the Equinox House '' or `` one door north of the Bank, Manchester, Vermont ''.
In lieu of the amanuensis to the blind or illiterate bard, one may conceive of a man who heard a vast store of oral poetry recited, and became intimately familiar with the established aids to poetizing, and himself wrote his own compositions or his edition of the compositions of the past.
Later, he became one of the central spirits of the Army Language Program and the language school of Washington's Foreign Service Institute.
Another Yankee became so disgusted as to state: `` I wish to God one half of our officers were knocked in the head by slinging them against ( the other half ) ''.
Still more jealous bitterness was engendered by the O'Banion gang's seizure from a West Side marshalling yard of a freight-car load of Canadian whisky worth $100,000 and by one of the biggest coups of the Prohibition era -- the Sibley warehouse robbery, which became famous for the cool brazenness of the operation.
But at this the one too-large cat suddenly became two cats, stretching.
He merely became victimized by a form of athletics that respects no one and aggravates all.
But after that 12 at Los Angeles he became one of the boys, a bigger hero than he ever had been before.
At one time I became disturbed in the faith in which I had grown up by the apparent inroads being made upon both Old and New Testaments by a `` Higher Criticism '' of the Bible, to refute which I felt the need of a better knowledge of Hebrew and of archaeology, for it seemed to me that to pull out some of the props of our faith was to weaken the entire structure.
As a youth he became one of Finney's band of evangelists and gave himself to winning young men.
Bob Carroll may not bear quite as close a physical resemblance to LaGuardia as Tom Bosley does, but I was amazed at the way he became more and more Fiorello as the evening progressed, until one had to catch one's self up and remember that this wasn't really LaGuardia come back among us again.
As he grew into his teens, he willingly took responsibility for all chores expected of him as one of the boys in the household and became an adept axeman in his work building rail fences.
Stanton was one of many conservative Democrats ( he supported Breckenridge in the 1860 election ) who became anti-slavery Republicans under Lincoln's leadership.

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