Tag: Eugen Weidmann

• On This Day in 1949; Germaine Leloy-Godefroy, last French woman to face the guillotine.

  

  She was the last woman in France to face the dreaded ‘Timbers of Justice.’

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  April 21, 2018

  History, True Crime

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