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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]
No. 77: site of the Sainte-Anne chapel built in 1650, demolished in 1790, where the wife of the executioner Charles Sanson was buried. Listed as a historical monument, no. 80 was a former pub at the corner of the Rue des Messageries, with a storefront from the first half of the 19th century, listed as a historical monument.
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 ...
Gloria Josephine Mae Swanson [1] (March 27, 1899 – April 4, 1983) was an American actress. She first achieved fame acting in dozens of silent films in the 1920s and was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, most famously for her 1950 turn in Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard, which earned her a Golden Globe Award.
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]
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 ...
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 idea of writing the story was most likely born after Balzac's meeting with Sanson's son, Henri-Nicolas-Charles Sanson, also an executioner. Perhaps the son's stories about his father— an extremely religious man despite his work—inspired Balzac to write a story that is not based on actual facts, but on the human aspect of a real life ...