It was an alarming scene last week when protesters set up a guillotine in front of Jeff Bezos’s Washington, D.C., residence.

Made famous during the French Revolution, guillotines were used to execute aristocrats and other revolutionaries, and victims included King Louis XVI, Queen Marie Antoinette, Georges Danton, and Maximilien Robespierre.

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