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Engraved portrait of J.-I. Guillotin, Doctor-Rector and former professor of the Faculty of Medicine of Paris, framed with laurels, with Latin inscription and text describing his role in the abolition of the death penalty and the invention of the execution machine. The reverse is blank, with a central dividing line and multilingual inscriptions at the top (in English, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian, German, Spanish) indicating 'Postcard'.