Editing Guillotine (section)

=== Resumption of use ===
[[File:France - Public execution on Guillotine 1897.jpg|thumb|A 20 April 1897 public execution by guillotine in front of the prison of [[Lons-le-Saunier]]. The man about to be  beheaded, Pierre Vaillat, robbed and  killed two elder siblings on Christmas Day 1896. He was convicted of his crimes on 9 March 1897.]]
After the [[French Revolution]], executions resumed in the city centre. On 4 February 1832, the guillotine was moved behind the [[Saint-Jacques Tower|Church of Saint-Jacques-de-la-Boucherie]], before being moved again, to the [[La Roquette Prisons|Grande Roquette prison]], on 29 November 1851.

In the late 1840s, the Tussaud brothers Joseph and Francis, gathering relics for [[Madame Tussauds]] wax museum, visited the aged [[Henry-Clément Sanson]], grandson of the executioner [[Charles-Henri Sanson]], from whom they obtained parts, the knife and lunette, of one of the original guillotines used during the Reign of Terror. The executioner had "pawned his guillotine, and got into woeful trouble for alleged trafficking in municipal property".<ref>Leonard Cottrell (1952) ''Madame Tussaud'', Evans Brothers Limited, pp. 142–43.</ref>

On 6 August 1909, the guillotine was used at the junction of the Boulevard Arago and the Rue de la Santé, behind the [[La Santé Prison]].

The last public guillotining in France was of [[Eugen Weidmann]], who was convicted of six murders. He was beheaded on 17 June 1939 outside the prison Saint-Pierre, rue Andre Mignot 5 at [[Versailles, Yvelines|Versailles]], which is now the Tribunal Judiciaire de Versailles. The proceedings caused "disgusting" and "unruly" behaviour among spectators. The “hysterical behavior” by spectators was so scandalous that French president Albert Lebrun immediately banned all future public executions.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2014-04-01 |title=The Last Public Execution by Guillotine, 1939 |website=Rare Historical Photos |url=https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/last-public-execution-guillotine-1939/ |access-date=2024-04-22 |language=en-US}}</ref>

[[Marie-Louise Giraud]] (17 November 1903 – 30 July 1943) was one of the last women to be executed in France. Giraud was convicted in Vichy France and was guillotined for having performed 27 abortions in the Cherbourg area on 30 July 1943. Her story was dramatized in the 1988 film [[Story of Women]] directed by [[Claude Chabrol]].

The guillotine remained the official method of execution in France until the death penalty was abolished in 1981.<ref name="legifrance.gouv.fr"/> The final three guillotinings in France before its abolition were those of child-murderers [[Christian Ranucci]] (on 28 July 1976) in Marseille, [[Jérôme Carrein]] (on 23 June 1977) in Douai and torturer-murderer [[Hamida Djandoubi]] (on 10 September 1977) in Marseille. Djandoubi's death was the last time that the guillotine was used for an execution by any government.