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November 28: On This Day in World History … briefly
The guillotine is best known for its use in France, in particular during the French Revolution, where the revolution's supporters celebrated it as the people's avenger and the revolution's opponents vilified it as the pre-eminent symbol of the violence of the Reign of Terror.
1972: Last executions in Paris
Claude Buffet (May 19, 1933 – November 28, 1972) was a French criminal who was executed along with his accomplice, Roger Bontems (born September 20, 1936), on November 28, 1972 by guillotine at La Santé Prison, aged 39 years. Both men had been convicted of the murders of prison warder Guy Girardot and prison nurse Nicole Comte in 1971, whom they had taken hostage while Buffet was already serving a life sentence in Clairvaux Prison. Robert Badinter was their defence lawyer.
Most notable historic snippets or facts extracted from the book ‘On This Day’ first published in 1992 by Octopus Publishing Group Ltd, London, as well as additional supplementary information extracted from Wikipedia.
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