1. During the French Revolution, thousands of people were guillotined.

2. Thousands of aristocrats were guillotined during the French Revolution.

3. Finally in the summer of 1794 Robespierre himself was overthrown and guillotined.

4. Decades later, during the Reign of Terror of the French Revolution, the Comtesse was targeted by the Jacobins as a symbol of the hated old regime; she was guillotined on 8 December 1793.