SANSON (Charles-Henri)
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Books
Relationships
- parent → SANSON
- colleague → MAROLLES (Abbe de)
Professions
- executioner other
Locations
- worked Paris city
Source note
SANSON (Charles-Henri), public executioner in the period of the Revolution, and beheader of Louis XVI.; he attended two masses commemorating the death of the King, celebrated in 1793 and 1794, by the Abbe de Marolles, to whom his identity was afterwards disclosed by Ragon. [An Episode under the Terror.]