Forty years after the abolition of the death penalty in France, voted on September 18, 1981, the guillotine remains in the collective imagination as the instrument of the death sentence. This machine, developed during the Revolution to render justice more equal, was presented as progress. Over time, opinion has been divided on the subject of the death penalty, the guillotine becoming the object of man's cruelty, a remnant of an archaic way of dispensing justice and fuelling the many debates around the death penalty and its abolition.

The documentary of the Nuremberg War Trials of 21 Nazi dignitaries held after World War II.

The history of arguably the most famous shop in the world, which has been based on Brompton Road in ...

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A depiction of the conflict between King Henry VIII of England and his Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas M...

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