Sept générations d'exécuteurs 1688-1847: Me?moires des Sanson mis en ordre
Publisher: Dupray de la Mahérie et cie.
Published: 1862
Notes: "The romantic tales told of C.H. Sanson have their origin in the apocryphal Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de la révolution française, par Sanson (2 vols., 1829; another ed. 1831), of which a few pages of introduction emanate from Balzac, and some other matter from Lhéritier de l'Ain. Other Mémoires of Sanson, ed. by A. Grégoire, (pseud. for V. Lombard) in 1830, and by M. d'Olbreuze (6 vols., 1862-1863) are equally fictitious."--Ency. Brit., 11th ed., v. 24, p. 183.