Sept générations d'exécuteurs 1688-1847
Subtitle: mémoires des Sanson
By: mis en ordre, rédigés et publiée par H. Sanson.
Contributors: Sanson, Henri, b. 1799.; Sanson, Charles Henri, b. 1738.; Sanson, Henri, 1767-1840.; Olbreuze, M. d'.; John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Dupray de la Mahérie
Published: 1862
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Subjects: Sampson family; Executions and executioners -- France; France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799
Other titles: Mémoires des Sanson
Notes: Thacher, II, p. 86 (French Revolution)
"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.