Talk:Charles-Henri Sanson

message: I came to this page to read up on Sanson after running across his name in an ethics paper by Arthur Isak Applbaum. He makes reference to him as a good executioner but an evil man with references to Applbaum's 1995 and 1999 papers. I don't have these papers at my disposal but I figured someone who is working on this page might appreciate the reference. Warhorus 17:44, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible source 

message: I would like to mention that I have a contemporary newspaper of Louis XVI death, it is reported in the paper that the executioner was called Henri Sauson. I do not know if this is a reporting error as if you say Sanson with a French accent it does sound like Sauson. 
:: You can't be serious! If you pronounce "Sanson" and "Sauson" in French (not using some obscure imaginary French accent from Hollywood movies), the two words sound *very* different. Just line "laws on" and "low son" in English sound very different. Of course, some guy who only knows French though the ridiculous hypothetical French accent commonly cliched in the US comedy shows could not possibly realize that. Why? Because the sounds "an" and "on" in French cannot be pronounced by anglophones who don't have them in their language. The "s" is "Sanson" is as in "ross" while the "s" in Sauson is as "rose" (because it is caught between two vowels). Most likely, "Sauson" was a misprint. Indeed, it is well-known in France that Sanson is the name of the state executioners (in France, while the death penalty was still in effect, i.e. until 1981, the job of executioner was hereditary). 84.72.92.4 (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 21:33, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Henri Sanson 

message: Either the father or the son in this article have had their associated dates altered by a century...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.183.135.166 (talk) 01:33, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong dates 

message: i dont know which Charles- Henri-Sanson was an executioner during the french revolution.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.161.145.44 (talk) 23:54, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I created a "Family History" section to help with the geneaology. For easy reference, here's a list:
* Charles Sanson
* Charles Sanson II
* Charles John Baptiste Sanson 
* Charles Henri Sanson ("The Great Sanson" of the Revolution)
* Henri Sanson
* Henri Clement Sanson 
As usual with foreign names, spelling changes sometimes from source to source: "Henri" can be "Henry", "John" can be "Jean", and "Henri Clement" is sometimes inverted to "Clement Henri". SteveStrummer (talk) 21:26, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Im confuzed 

message: According to a book I've just finished reading, "Legacy of Death," by a woman named Levy, the Sansons had no choice but to be executioners. Any Sanson who attempted another profession found himself shunned when his identity was discovered, and had little choice but to re-apply to his former trade.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.156.43.8 (talk) 13:06, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Had no choice

message: What was his religion? --Alfred Klose (talk) 15:39, 31 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: According to the (often dubious, but in this regard reliable) memoirs of his grandson, the Sanson family was Catholic Christian. They simply wouldn't have been appointed to a royal office of that kind had they been otherwise. --Saddhiyama (talk) 18:13, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

text: The Sansons most probably were Christian. However, there are sources to attest that Jews served as executioners in other European countries. For instance, an executioner in Hamburg in the 16th century was called Rosenfeld, which is usually not a Christian name. --Steinireyk (talk) 14:25, 29 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Was he a Christian or a Jew? 

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