Guillotine, Alphonse-Léon Berger, France, 1872 (replacing the one burned during the Paris Commune in 1870) Wood, metal, Mucem; assigned to the museum by the Ministry of Justice upon the recommendation of Minister of Justice Robert Badinter in 1982. © Mucem, David Giancatarina
Guillotine, Alphonse-Léon Berger, France, 1872 (replacing the one burned during the Paris Commune in 1870) Wood, metal, Mucem; assigned to the museum by the Ministry of Justice upon the recommendation of Minister of Justice Robert Badinter in 1982. © Mucem, David Giancatarina

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To mark Robert Badinter’s induction into the Panthéon, the Mucem is displaying the guillotine from its collection.

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The Mucem is exhibiting the guillotine preserved thanks to Robert Badinter in 1982 To mark Robert Badinter’s induction into the Panthéon on October 9, 2025, the Mucem is highlighting an object of great symbolic significance in French judicial, political, and social history: the guillotine. It was added to the national collections in 1982 at the suggestion of Minister of Justice Robert Badinter, one year after the abolition of the death penalty in France

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