Why is the guillotine a symbol of the French Revolution? David Andress explains the origins of the guillotine and its enduring power as a symbol of the French Revolution. Find out more at http://spr.ly/6183iKK3F | HistoryExtra

An incredible and extremely rare artifact of world history, this mutton bone model of a guillotine was created during the Napoleonic wars by a French prisoner of war. Many of the inmates at the prisoner of war camps were skilled artisans long before they were soldiers, and because of the long duration of the conflict and cost of care, their captors encouraged detainees to use their skills to create objects to be sold at civilian open markets. Because of the intricacy of these fascinating objets