bunniesandbeheadings:annttg:Guillotine, toy of the time of the French revolution, ca. 1794One woman,
bunniesandbeheadings:annttg:Guillotine, toy of the time of the French revolution, ca. 1794One woman, Elisabeth Goethe, wrote to her son Joanne Wolfgang Goethe in December 1793 refusing to buy one of these toys for her grandchild:Dear Son,I’ll do anything to please you and do it with great pleasure, but to buy a miniature model of the infamous guilotine as a plaything for the baby - no, I won’t do that at any price. If I had a say in government, the manufacturers of this toy would themselves be put under the guillotine and I would have the machine itself publicly burned. What!-Let children play with anything so revolting and make them think of murder and bloodshed as a game, Oh no, not as far as I am concerned.Moms ruin all the fun, alas. It’s our thing. It’s what we do. -- source link