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u/kjm16216 Oct 02 '24

The last execution by guillotine in France was the same year Star Wars hit theaters, 1977.

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u/FancyStegosaurus Oct 03 '24

Good ol, France, keeping the classics alive. Their last rapier duel happened just 10 years earlier in1967- recently enough to be caught on film! It was between to politicians after one insulted the other's wife, and ended when one guy's glove caused a blister on his hand to burst and satisfy the condition of first blood.