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    Charles-Henri Sanson, full title Chevalier Charles-Henri Sanson de Longval (15 February 1739 – 4 July 1806), was the royal executioner of France during...
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    a simple majority. The execution by guillotine was performed by Charles-Henri Sanson, then High Executioner of the French First Republic and previously...
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    Guillotine (redirect from Henri Languille)
    the guillotine. According to the memoir of the French executioner Charles-Henri Sanson, Louis XVI suggested the use of a straight, angled blade instead...
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  • Louis-Philippe I from 1840 to 1847. Sanson was born into a long line of executioners. His father was Henri Sanson, the city's chief executioner for 47...
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  • Mexican wrestler Audley Sanson (born 1974), Jamaican cricketer Boris Sanson (born 1980), French sabre fencer Charles-Henri Sanson (1739–1806), public executioner...
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  • Charles-Henri Sanson and Marie-Joseph Sanson. Charles-Henri Sanson Marie-Joseph Sanson (younger sister of Charles-Henri Sanson) Innocent is written and illustrated...
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    on the cheek. Charles-Henri Sanson, the executioner, indignantly rejected published reports that Legros was one of his assistants. Sanson stated in his...
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    Faces of Death 3. Nearly half a century later, he portrayed headsman Charles-Henri Sanson in a 1989 French TV drama about the French Revolution, in which his...
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    October 1793, he was guillotined along with 28 other Girondins by Charles-Henri Sanson. Brissot was born in Chartres, the 13th child of a wealthy traiteur;...
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    scaffold unassisted. When clearing Robespierre's neck, executioner Charles-Henri Sanson tore off the bandage that was holding his shattered jaw in place...
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    unlikely, since the blade severed Louis' spine. The executioner, Charles-Henri Sanson, testified that the former king had bravely met his fate. Immediately...
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    poured into his wounds. He was then remanded to the royal executioner Charles-Henri Sanson (who would ironically later go on to execute King Louis XVI) who...
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  • Alexandre Soumet (1788–1845), poet Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle) (1783–1842), writer Charles Henri Sanson (1739–1806), executioner of Louis XVI Marie Taglioni...
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    Rodolph (Mrs.). Hutchinson & Co. Sanson, Henri; Sanson, Charles Henri; Sanson, Henri; Olbreuze, d' (1876). Memoirs of the Sansons, from private notes and documents...
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    book 12, ch. 7, p. 256 Sanson, Henri; Sanson, Charles Henri; Sanson, Henri; Olbreuze, d' (12 March 1876). "Memoirs of the Sansons, from private notes and...
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    [better source needed] During the preparation for his execution, the executioner Charles-Henri Sanson, dislodged the bandage securing his shattered jaw, eliciting an anguished...
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    the resemblance between the executioner in Lethière's painting and Charles-Henri Sanson, the man who displayed King Louis XVI’s severed head to a Parisian...
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  • historical facts, executioner Charles-Henri Sanson was shown executing both Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette. The elder Sanson actually executed only Louis...
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    help secure their own borders. However, with the ailing and childless Charles II of Spain approaching his end, a new conflict over the inheritance of...
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  • the titular King), told from the perspective of his executioner Charles-Henri Sanson. Eimika Katsuya said of "King": "It's a dark song with an absurd...
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    of the Sanson family record many details of the execution. According to the Sansons, after Lally said "And now, you can strike!" Charles Henri raised...
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    in Joué-du-Bois, and died in Paris in 1871. Imaginary portrait of Charles-Henri Sanson by Eugène Lampsonius La reine Margot (Queen Margot), by Alexandre...
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  • Vengeance Killia Durarara!! Relay Masaomi Kida Fate/Grand Order Charles-Henri Sanson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Bedivere Fire Emblem Fates Leo Hakuōki:...
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    together with three family members and fifty others on 17 June; Charles-Henri Sanson left the scaffold sick. It is unclear how many of them were related...
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  • Meanwhile, the public executioner Charles Henri Sanson tested the machine on corpses in the Bicêtre Hospital. Sanson preferred the guillotine over the...
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  • life counterpart does. Assassin (アサシン, Asashin) – Charles-Henri Sanson (シャルル=アンリ・サンソン, Sharuru-Anri Sanson) Voiced by: Mamoru Miyano Appearing in Orleans...
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  • Guillaume Scemacgus, former naval surgeon (1-5) Michaël Abiteboul : Charles-Henri Sanson, executioner of Châtelet (1-5) Jean-Marie Winling : M. de Noblecourt...
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  • surgeon; Monsieur de La Borde, First Groom of the King’s Bedchamber; Charles-Henri Sanson, Paris hangman and in charge of autopsies; along with the servants...
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    June 30 – Charles Dickinson, American attorney, famous duelist (killed in a duel by Andrew Jackson) (b. 1780) July 4 – Charles Henri Sanson, Royal Executioner...
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  • p. 54. ISBN 1857288718. "A discovery of the person who beheaded King Charles I". The Scots Magazine. 1 January 1776. p. 16. Frederic George Stephens;...
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