Part of the point of the guillotine was that everyone should be executed the same way, regardless of class.

But the executioners has to butt in and say “uh, guys, proper beheadings are hard and we literally can’t do as many as you’re asking.”

So they made a machine to automate it, that every man (condemned by the state) should die like a king.

You know the rest. Or you don’t. Don’t look up what happened to Robespierre.