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Charles-Henri Sanson, full title Chevalier Charles-Henri Sanson de Longval (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁl ɑ̃ʁi sɑ̃sɔ̃]; 15 February 1739 – 4 July 1806), was the royal executioner of France during the reign of King Louis XVI, as well as high executioner of the First French Republic. He administered capital punishment in Paris for over ...
Crichton's assistant discovered the manuscript on one of Crichton's computers after his death in 2008, along with an unfinished novel, Micro (2011). [1]According to Marla Warren, there is evidence that Crichton had been working on Pirate Latitudes at least since the 1970s; to substantiate her position, she quotes a statement by Patrick McGilligan in the March 1979 issue of American Film that ...
The executioner Charles-Henri Sanson responded to the story by offering his own version of events in a letter dated 20 February 1793. The account of Sanson states: Arriving at the foot of the guillotine, Louis XVI looked for a moment at the instruments of his execution and asked Sanson why the drums had stopped beating.
Charles-Henri Sanson (1739–1806), public executioner of France from 1788 to 1795; Ernest Sanson (1836–1918), French architect; Henry-Clément Sanson (1799-1889), Royal Executioner of Paris from 1840 to 1847; Jean-Baptiste Sanson de Pongerville (1782–1870), French poet and member of the Académie française; Morgan Sanson (born 1994 ...
Henry-Clément Sanson (27 May 1799 – 25 January 1889) was a French executioner. He held the position of Royal Executioner of the City of Paris , serving King Louis-Philippe I from 1840 to 1847. Sanson was born into a long line of executioners.
The term is most commonly used in English to refer either to the secular polyphonic French songs of late medieval and Renaissance music or to a specific style of French pop music which emerged in the 1950s and 1960s.
La Révolution française is a two-part 1989 historical drama co-produced by France, Germany, Italy and Canada for the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution.The full film runs at 360 minutes, but the edited-for-television version is slightly longer.
In February 1789, for the beautiful eyes of the Comtesse de Buffon, the Duke of Orléans (Philippe Égalité) had the name of the street changed by a decree of the King's Council (February 19, 1789): "The Rue d'Enfer will henceforth be called the Rue Bleue, a name which will be more easily remembered than any other, given that in the same district there is one which bears the name of Rue Verte ...