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CHARLES HENRI SANSON (b. 1739)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 183 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHARLES See also:HENRI See also:SANSON (b. 1739)  , public executioner of See also:Paris from 1788 to 1795, was the son of See also:Charles See also:Sanson or Longval, who received in 1688 the See also:office of executeur See also:des hautes euvres de Paris, which became hereditary in his See also:family . Sanson's See also:brothers exercised the same See also:trade in other towns . In the last days of 1789 See also:Gorsas in the Courtier de Paris accused Sanson of harbouring a Royalist See also:press in his See also:house . Sanson was brought to trial, but acquitted, and Gorsas withdrew the See also:accusation . After the See also:execution of See also:Louis XVI., a statement by Sanson was inserted in the Thermometre politique (13th See also:February 1793) in See also:contradiction of the false statements made in respect of the See also:king's behaviour when confronted with See also:death . He surrendered his office in 1795 to his son See also:Henri, who had been his See also:deputy for some See also:time, and held his See also:father's office till his death in 184o . There is no See also:record of the See also:elder Sanson's death . Henri's son See also:Clement Henri was the last of the family to hold the office . The romantic tales told of C . H . Sanson have their origin in the apocryphal Memoires pour servir a l'histoire de la Revolution Franyaise See also:par Sanson (2 vols., 1829; another ed., 1831), of which a few pages of introduction emanate from See also:Balzac, and some other See also:matter from Lheritier de l'See also:Ain . Other Memoires of Sanson, edited by A .

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Gregoire (ps. for V . Lombard) in 183o, and by M. d'Olbreuze (6 vols., 1862—1863) are equally fictitious . The few facts definitely ascertainable are collected by G . Lenotre in La See also:Guillotine See also:pendant la Revolution (1893) . Cf . M .See also:Tourneux, Bibliographie de l'histoire de Paris .. . (189o, &c.), vol. i . Nos . 3963-3965, and vol. iv., s.v .

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