Mar 15 2008
French Flock to Les Guillotinés
I was reading an interesting article in The Times this morning about a website that has produced a list of people who were beheaded during the French Revolution. The site, Les Guillotinés de la Révolution Française, has been created by an amateur genealogist called Raymond Combes who estimates that up to 5 million French people have ancestors who fell victim to the blade of the infamous guillotine. From his research, there could be a lot more people who fell victim to the violence than the 17,500 which is the official figure.
It looks like the French are just as much into genealogy as us Brits, and for those of you who have French ancestors to research, Cyndi’s List has a lengthy list of websites to help in your quest to find out more.
