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Sanson was born in Paris to Charles Jean-Baptiste Sanson and his first wife Madeleine Tronson. Sanson was the fourth in a six-generation family dynasty of executioners. His great-grandfather, Charles Sanson (1658–1695) of Abbeville, was a soldier in the French royal army and was appointed as executioner of Paris in 1688. [1]
The family was known as "the Rothschilds of the East" due to the immense wealth they accumulated in Asia. [1] The family's businesses in China, India, and Hong Kong especially, were built to capitalise on the opium trade. As more family members gravitated toward London, they became prominent in England and were ennobled by Queen Victoria.
It is highly unlikely that Charles Jean-Baptiste Sanson regained his strength to save the day. A piece written by Dr. Louis, as cited in Daniel Arasse's "The Guillotine and the Terror," recounts that during the execution, Lally knelt blindfolded and Charles-Henri Sanson struck him on the back of the neck. The blow failed to separate the head ...
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 ...
At 16, he came across magazine pictures of physique star Tommy Farber in Physical Culture magazine and became interested in physical development. He trained under the tutelage of bodybuilding publisher Bernarr Macfadden and bodybuilder Charles Atlas (aka Angelo Siciliano). In October 1923, Sansone, 18, won a physique contest sponsored by Atlas.
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.
Charles Watson, Esq. (1740-1804), and His Wife, Lady Mary (d.1793), with Their Two Children, James (1781-1823) and Anne (1782-1800), in a Landscape; Date and time of data generation: 15 December 2022: JPEG file comment: Created by ImageGear, AccuSoft Corp. File change date and time: 22:33, 18 February 2016: Software used: Keepthinking IPTC/XMP ...
Georges Jacques Danton (French: [ʒɔʁʒ dɑ̃tɔ̃]; 26 October 1759 – 5 April 1794) was a leading figure in the French Revolution.A modest and unknown lawyer on the eve of the Revolution, Danton became a famous orator of the Cordeliers Club and was raised to governmental responsibilities as the French Minister of Justice following the fall of the monarchy on the tenth of August 1792, and ...