The Gory History of the Guillotine for Rats and Mice

Confessions from a self-proclaimed lab rat

Anita Durairaj
Lessons from History
5 min readDec 26, 2020

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Photo by Annemarie Horne on Unsplash

Mention the word “guillotine” and I am sure you are most likely thinking of the French Revolution where the guillotine was used as an instrument designed for beheading prisoners. One of the most famous persons beheaded by the guillotine was Marie Antoinette.

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