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THE WOMAN IN THE IRON MASK

    

(SUBTITLE:  THE "MURDER" OF MARIE ANTOINETTE)
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DR GUILLOTIN
Physician to the rich and inventor of "la guillotine"

I am Dr Guillotin, aged 50, a fashionable Parisian physician.  Small, bespectacled, earnest and smiling, I am often called to the royal court.  There I attend to the ailments of the nobility, prescribing relieving drugs for them.  However a kind hearted man, I am also prepared to care for more common folk should the opportunity arise.

I am extremely interested in politics and history, and have made an intensive study of both subjects.

Recently Cardinal Mazarin issued a request for designs for a more humane method of executing prisoners.  I came up with the idea of an execution machine, which I have called “The Guillotine”.  Basically the prisoner is strapped in a horizontal position.  Above his neck is suspended a blade which runs between two frames.  The blade is raised by a rope, then let fall.  The blade cleanly and efficiently decapitates the prisoner causing instant death.

Cardinal Mazarin was very interested by my machine.  While staying at Chateau Meutre I have been creating a prototype in the courtyard.  Yesterday I demonstrated it to the cardinal and the king.

 


 

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