As the New Yorker’s correspondent in Paris, Janet Flanner initially focused on society gossip. The specter of war was in the ...
In “The Typewriter and the Guillotine,” Mark Braude takes on the intersection of Janet Flanner’s career and a lurid murder case.
In September 1977, Hamida Djandoubi became the last person executed by guillotine in France and the Western world. The execution took place inside a prison courtyard, away from the public eye.