CHARLES HENRI SANSON (b. 1739)
, public executioner of Paris from 1788 to 1795, was the son of Charles Sanson or Longval, who received in 1688 the See also: - OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of executeur des hautes euvres de Paris, which became hereditary in his family
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Sanson's brothers exercised the same trade in other towns
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In the last days of 1789 Gorsas in the Courtier de Paris accused Sanson of harbouring a Royalist press in his house
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Sanson was brought to trial, but acquitted, and Gorsas withdrew the accusation
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After the execution of See also: - LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XVI., a statement by Sanson was inserted in the Thermometre politique (13th February 1793) in contradiction of the false statements made in respect of the See also: - KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king's behaviour when confronted with death
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He surrendered his office in 1795 to his son Henri, who had been his deputy for some See also: - TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time, and held his father's office till his death in 184o
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There is no record of the elder Sanson's death
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Henri's son Clement Henri was the last of the family to hold the office
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The romantic tales told of C
.
H
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Sanson have their origin in the
apocryphal Memoires pour servir a l'histoire de la Revolution Franyaise
par Sanson (2 vols., 1829; another ed., 1831), of which a few pages of introduction emanate from Balzac, and some other matter from Lheritier de l' Ain
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Other Memoires of Sanson, edited by A
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Gregoire (ps. for V
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Lombard) in 183o, and by M. d'Olbreuze (6 vols., 1862—1863) are equally fictitious
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The few facts definitely ascertainable are collected by G
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Lenotre in La Guillotine pendant la Revolution (1893)
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Cf
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M . Tourneux, Bibliographie de l'histoire de Paris
..
. (189o, &c.), vol. i
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Nos
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3963-3965, and vol. iv., s.v
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