Charles-Henri Sanson, executioner or bourreau during the reign of King Louis XVI and the Reign of Terror, 1739-1806. Standing next to a basket on the scaffold. In hat with tricolor cockade, white cape and red coat and hose, blue sash. L'executeur des hautes oeuvres. Handcoloured steel engraving by Leopold Massard after an illustration by Theophile Fragonard from Augustin Challamel and Wilhelm Tenint’s Les Francais sous la Revolution, The French under the Revolution, Challamel, Paris, 1843.

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