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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 the reign of King Louis XVI, as well as high executioner of the First French Republic.
Feb 8, 2019 · Charles-Henri Sanson (1739-1806) served as a state executioner through the Ancien Régime and French Revolution. This is his bloody story. He prided himself on a clean beheading and was always ashamed that he'd once unintentionally tortured a man by failing to sever his head in a single stroke.
Aug 29, 2016 · Charles-Henri Sanson killed over 3,000 people during his tenure. The stigma from Sanson's grim profession meant that the blood would never wash from his hands. He was one of France's most prolific executioners, having killed nearly 3,000 souls.
The execution was performed by Charles-Henri Sanson, then High Executioner of the French First Republic and previously royal executioner under Louis. Often viewed as a turning point in both French and European history, the execution inspired various reactions around the world.
Charles-Henri Sanson was the chief executor of Paris for more than 40 years, beginning in the mid-1750s and retiring in 1795. During this time he personally despatched almost 3,000 people. Like most executioners, Sanson inherited the job from his father and passed it on to his own son.
Apr 6, 2018 · The French Revolution and the invention of the guillotine allowed Charles-Henri Sanson, whose family had been executioners for generations, to become a hero—but the glory was brief.
Charles Henri retired heartbroken when his youngest son fell off a scaffold and broke his neck while triumphantly displaying a severed head to the crowd. His eldest son Henri, executioner of...
Apr 25, 2012 · In 1791 the National Assembly made decapitation the only legal form of capital punishment in France, but the state executioner, Charles-Henri Sanson, knew this presented practical problems.
Apr 13, 2018 · Charles-Henri Sanson was France's Royal Executioner, in more ways than one. He killed men for his king, and when the time came he killed that king as well.
On 21 January 1793, the French Republican government sent King Louis XVI to the guillotine. Stripped of all his titles and indicted under his family name as citoyen Louis Capet, he was sent to the scaffold to be guillotined by the chief executioner of Paris, Charles Henri Sanson.
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