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I believe it was 1939 just before World War II if memory serves me correctly.
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I watched a program on C&I channel recently about the executioners. If I remember correctly, it stopped when the death penalty in France was abolished in 1981. But it stopped publicly some years before that.
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Free wikipedia: The guillotine retired The last public guillotining was of Eugène Weidmann, who was convicted of six murders. He was beheaded on June 17, 1939.
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in 1977
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It lasted up to the abolition of the death penalty in late summer 1981, however it was last used on September 10, 1977.
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