Charles-Henri Sanson
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Charles-Henri Sanson, was the royal executioner of France during the reign of King Louis XVI, and later chief executioner of the First French Republic. He administered capital punishment in Paris for
Posthumous portrait of Sanson by Eugène Lampsonius for a 1851 republication of Un épisode sous la Terreur, an 1830 short story by Honoré de Balzac
The execution of Olympe de Gouges
The bourreau under Louis XVI
Execution of Marie Antoinette
Maximilien Robespierre
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Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre was a French lawyer and statesman, widely recognised as one of the most influential figures of the French Revolution. Robespierre fervently campaigned
Charles-Henri Sanson
…He is renowned for carrying out nearly 3,000 executions. During the French Revolution, he was the executioner of Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette, and Robespierre. Sanson was born in Paris to Charles Jean-Baptiste Sanson and his first wife Madeleine Tronson. His great-grandfather, Charles Sanson (1658–1695) of…
c. 1790 portrait
1794 print with the slogan "Supreme Being, Sovereign People, French Republic". An elderly Voltaire is depicted along with a bust of Brutus and the grave of Rousseau.
Between 1787 and 1789 Robespierre lived in this house, now on Rue Maximilien de Robespierre
The revolutionary decrees passed by the Assembly in August 1789 culminated in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.