What was the real reason for the invention of the guillotine?

Question

What was the real reason for the invention of the guillotine?

Answer 1

Chop off heads. <}:-})

Answer 2

Equality for all, even in execution. Up 'til then, commoners were hanged (slow suffocation if the neck isn't broken immediately), and nobility were quickly beheaded by a skilled swordsman. King Henry sent to France for a skilled executioner to behead Queen Anne.

Answer 3

cutting cigars

Answer 4

the guillotine was the sign for equality durign the french revolution - used by all nobility or poor.  it was invented earlier s it was quicker than the hackign of heads- multiple strikes sometimes.