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  2. Charles-Henri Sanson - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. Pirate Latitudes - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Sanson - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Odette Hallowes - Wikipedia

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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]

  6. Gloria Swanson - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Charles Rumney Samson - Wikipedia

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    Samson was married in Colombo on 7 April 1917 to Miss Honor Oakden Patrickson Storey, the only daughter of Herbert Lushington Storey, and his wife, Emily Muriel Storey. [20] They had one daughter. Samson was granted a decree nisi against his wife by the Divorce Court in London in December 1923. Their divorce became final in 1924. [21]

  8. Catherine of Braganza - Wikipedia

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    Royal advisors urged the monarch to seek a divorce, hoping that the new wife would be Protestant and fertile – but Charles refused. This eventually led to her being made a target by courtiers. [1] Throughout his reign, Charles firmly dismissed the idea of divorcing Catherine, and she remained faithful to Charles throughout their marriage.

  9. Henry-Clément Sanson - Wikipedia

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    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.