Related Clues:

• Apparatus named for a French physician
• Perhaps it tops off the lot in artful deception?
• Limit parliamentary debate on capital punishment
• Device for parting head from shoulders
• 'A Tale of Two Cities' ender?
• Machine for cutting paper (or French aristocrats) down to size
• Head-removing device
• What often fell to the nobility in France
• Revolutionary tool that limits debate
• Group governing in cunning move to curtail debate
• Beheading machine
• One with sharp blade using craft to check temperature inside piece of pork
• Look into culpability in case finally resulting in capital punishment
• Execution machine
• It's raised to top!