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- Guillotines have become rare in France since abolition in 1981.
- The Museum of the Prefecture of Police in Paris holds a guillotine blade.
- The Carnavalet Museum displays a guillotine model and brass earrings.
- Five indentations in the Eleventh Arrondissement mark where a guillotine stood outside Roquette prison.
- The guillotine was designed in the 1780s by Antoine Louis at the urging of Joseph-Ignace Guillotin to make executions more humane.
