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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 ...
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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 Auguste de Goyon, Count of Gacé (Chargé d'affaires) 1710: 1710: Count Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli (Franco-Italian Acting Attaché) 1711: 1711: Chevalier Nicolas Mesnager (Acting Attaché) 1712: 1712: Louis d'Aumont, 3rd Duke of Aumont (Minister Plenipotentiary) 1712: 1713: Nicolas du Blé, marquis of Clermont and d'Huxelles (Minister ...
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Odette Marie Léonie Céline Brailly was born on 28 April 1912 at 208, rue des Corroyers in Amiens, France; [2] the daughter of Emma Rose Marie Yvonne née Quennehen [a] and Florentin Désiré Eugène 'Gaston' Brailly, [b] a bank manager, killed at Verdun shortly before the Armistice in 1918 and posthumously awarded the Croix de Guerre and Médaille militaire for heroism. [3]
Pierre Victor, Baron de Besenval de Brunstatt in armour, portrayed by Jean-Marc Nattier in 1766, wearing the insignia of Chevalier of the order of Saint Louis Gustave Maximilien Juste de Croÿ-Solre Painting by Charles Wilson Peale showing a young French dragoon officer having fought in the American Revolution ; his father holds the Order of ...
Anna Wintour is rarely seen without her shades. But she broke with tradition when receiving the Order of the Companions of Honour from King Charles.