Memoirs of the Sansons, from Private Notes and Documents. 1689-1847, Volume 1Chatto and Windus, 1876 - Executions and executioners |
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Abbé Abbeville accomplices ancestor Angélique answered appeared arrested asked Assembly assistants Barre became Blignac blood brother capital punishment Cardinal Cartouche Cartouche's Charlemagne Charles Henri Sanson Charles Jean-Baptiste Sanson Charles Sanson Charolais Châtelet Chevalier citizens Conciergerie confess Count de Horn Court Créqy crime criminal lieutenant crowd culprit Damiens death decapitation Duke execution executioner executioner's father favour Favras fear France functions Gabriel Sanson gave gentlemen girl Gomart Gorsas grandfather guillotine hand heard honour Hôtel-de-Ville inflicted Jean Jeanne Jouanne justice King Lally Lally-Tollendal Larcher livres looked Louis XIV Madame magistrate Marguerite Marie Antoinette Marquis Marquis de Favras Marthe Dubut Master Mathurin Mdme Monsieur Motte murder Paris Parliament Place de Grève police prince prisoner profession punishment Regent Rohan Sanson de Longval scaffold sentence soldiers suffer sword taken tion Tiquet told torture trial Versailles victim wife wished words young