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The Last Guillotine of Paris: True Crime, a Serial Killer, and the Final Public Execution in France

by Lena R. J. Holloway
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798246535622
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published
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  • Pages: 118
  • Original Price: USD 19.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 168 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Historical


In the late 1930s, as Europe drifted toward war, Paris became the stage for one of the most unsettling criminal cases in modern French history. A series of calculated murders, committed by a German con man operating across borders, culminated in a public execution that would mark the end of an era.
This true crime account examines the life and crimes of Eugen Weidmann, the last person executed by guillotine before a public crowd in France. His arrest and trial drew intense international attention, not only for the brutality of the crimes but for what they revealed about a continent on the brink of collapse.
The case was closely followed by American journalist Janet Flanner, then serving as The New Yorker's Paris correspondent. Through her reporting, the story of a single killer became inseparable from the wider political and moral crisis overtaking Europe. Weidmann's violence, spectacle, and execution reflected a society increasingly desensitized to cruelty and authoritarian control.
The Last Guillotine of Paris places a notorious murder case within its full historical context, tracing how crime, media, and rising extremism intersected in the final months before World War II. The result is a restrained, factual examination of violence, accountability, and the end of public execution in modern France.

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