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    When the Guillotine Fell: The Bloody Beginning and Horrifying End to France's River of Blood, 1791 "1977
    Jeremy Mercer
    St. Martin's Press, Jul 2008, $24.95
    ISBN: 0312357915

    This is a fascinating look at one of the most notariouss execution devices made infamous in A Tale of two Cities. However, the best passages are the stories of those who danced with Madame Guillotine, but these are disjointed with sudden switches to other poignant segues. Interestingly, the inventor Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guill ...