Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:L'execution de Maximilien de Robespierre a la guillotine.jpg

File:L'execution de Maximilien de Robespierre a la guillotine.jpg, featured edit

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Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Historical
Info created by Giacomo Aliprandi - uploaded by Guise - nominated by Paris 16 -- Paris 16 (talk) 04:19, 7 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Paris 16 (talk) 04:19, 7 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 07:00, 7 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comment This is not a contemporary illustration is it? Charles (talk) 07:56, 7 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support I find it interesting that Robespierre's wounds sustained before the execution are not visible. Possibly a choice made by the artist. @Charles: I would say so; Robespierre was beheaded in 1794 and if this engraving is from 1799 that makes it fairly contemporary, right?--Peulle (talk) 16:46, 7 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Well it was published in England, not France, so who knows? Charles (talk) 17:06, 7 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
It's also interesting that Robespierre's resisting his execution in this engraving. He did not, actually (he wasn't in a physical condition to fight anyway)... --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 07:15, 8 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
And: Robespierre was just one of many to die on this day. Sanson might be considered the world's first assembly line worker during la terreur --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 07:15, 8 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Of course it did not happen like on this engraving. How do you imagine to guillotine somebody with the hands and arms linked in front ? This is just to show how he was afraid/resisting, it is a political design. Actually, he was not conscious, he just screamed when the bandage was removed from his jaw.--Jebulon (talk) 11:18, 9 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Just added the commentary of the French historian Michel Biard. --Guise (talk) 15:56, 9 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Support Interesting. Cmao20 (talk) 22:32, 7 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support Daniel Case (talk) 05:19, 8 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Booth sift 05:31, 8 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support.--Vulp here 08:56, 8 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 14:07, 8 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Llez (talk) 04:33, 9 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 16:44, 9 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed results:

Result: 10 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--Booth sift 05:46, 12 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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