Does anyone know where the last guillotine in Paris is?

Question

I have heard there is a bar where you can go and have drinks around it but the internet isn't throwing up much. Has anyone been there or know where this place in Paris is?

Answer 1

The last public guillotining was of Eugène Weidmann, who was convicted of six murders. He was beheaded on June 17, 1939, outside the prison Saint-Pierre rue Georges Clemenceau 5 at Versailles, which is now the Palais de Justice. The allegedly scandalous behaviour of some of the onlookers on this occasion, and an incorrect assembly of the apparatus, as well as the fact it was secretly filmed, caused the authorities to decide that executions in the future were to take place in the prison courtyard. Jules-Henri Desfourneaux, the presiding "number one" executioner at this time was variously reported as slow, possibly drunk and indecisive, certainly a far cry from his well regarded immediate predecessor Anatole Deibler. He was also prone to arguing with his cousin and "number two" Andre Obrecht which led to the latter's resignation on two separate occasions, the last involving a fist-fight between the pair after an execution.

The guillotine remained the official method of execution in France until France abolished the death penalty in 1981. The last guillotining in France was that of torture-murderer Hamida Djandoubi on September 10, 1977.

Answer 2

The obelisk, Palais de la Concorde.

Metro: Conceorde line

Bus:24,52,42,etc

Answer 3

Spy is right:

Le Caveau des Oubliettes

52, Rue Galande, 75005 Paris

Metro Saint Michel

It has good reviews.

Answer 4

Sorry, i just have this one but i think that you can contact them by this way...

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fus...

This Pub is inside one of the best place in Paris

Typical, student and cosmopolitan area !

Enjoy..