The lawyer was the first to approach the guillotine. "Blindfold?," asked the executioner. The lawyer did not want to be seen as a coward and replied: "No blindfold." "Do you want to lie face up or ...

A well-dressed plumpish man, who bore a striking resemblance to France’s late, great King Louis XVI, was a determined auction bidder in Paris last week for a dull, tarnished guillotine blade ...