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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 ...
Chevalier, who started his executioner's career in 1958, performed about 40 executions. After his appointment as chief executioner on 1 October 1976, he executed only two people. They were the last two executions in France: Jérôme Carrein, condemned twice for the murder and rape of an eight-year-old girl, was guillotined on 23 June 1977 in Douai.
In 1870 the Republic of France abolished all local executioners and named the executioner of Algiers, Antoine Rasseneux, Éxécuteur des Arrêts Criminels en Algérie, which became France's official description of the executioner of Algeria's occupation.
Returning to France in the early 1900s, Desfourneaux entered an affair with Parisian woman Juliette Foussadier, who gave birth to his son Fernand in 1905. In 1907, he became the fiancée of Georgette Rogis, a common-law niece of chief executioner Anatole Deibler and member of another prominent executioner family. Two distant cousins of ...
Louis XVI and his family being transferred to the Temple Prison on 13 August 1792. Engraving by Jacques François Joseph Swebach-Desfontaines, 1792.. Following the attack on the Tuileries Palace during the insurrection of 10 August 1792, King Louis XVI was imprisoned at the Temple Prison in Paris, along with his wife Marie Antoinette, their two children and his younger sister Élisabeth.
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Deibler was born to Zoé Rasseneux and Louis-Antoine-Stanislas Deibler.Zoé's father Antoine-François-Joseph Rasseneux was an executioner in French Algeria since 1855. . Louis worked as an executioner since 1863, having trained under his father-in-law, and was named the chief executioner ("exécuteur en chef des arrêts criminels"), an office supervising all regional executions in France, in
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.