Charles-Henri Sanson, full title Chevalier Charles-Henri Sanson de Longval (15 February 1739 – 4 July 1806), was the royal executioner of France during...

him to death by a simple majority. The execution was performed by Charles-Henri Sanson, then High Executioner of the French First Republic and previously...

the guillotine. According to the memoir of the French executioner Charles-Henri Sanson, Louis XVI suggested the use of a straight, angled blade instead...

Louis-Philippe I from 1840 to 1847. Sanson was born into a long line of executioners. His father was Henri Sanson, the city's chief executioner for 47...

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Charles-Henri Sanson and Marie-Joseph Sanson. Charles-Henri Sanson Marie-Joseph Sanson (younger sister of Charles-Henri Sanson) Innocent is written and illustrated...

on the cheek. Charles-Henri Sanson, the executioner, indignantly rejected published reports that Legros was one of his assistants. Sanson stated in his...

Faces of Death 3. Nearly half a century later, he portrayed headsman Charles-Henri Sanson in a 1989 French TV drama about the French Revolution, in which his...

October 1793, he was guillotined along with 28 other Girondins by Charles-Henri Sanson. Brissot was born in Chartres, the 13th child of a wealthy traiteur;...

scaffold unassisted. When clearing Robespierre's neck, executioner Charles-Henri Sanson tore off the bandage that was holding his shattered jaw in place...