Tagebücher der Henker von Paris, 1685 bis 1847
By: von Henry Sanson, nach einer zeitgenössischen deutschen Ausgabe ausgewählt von Eduard Trautner
Contributors: Olbreuze, ḏ'
Publisher: G. Kiepenheuer
Published: 1924
Place of publication: Potsdam
Language: ger; fre
Number of pages: 822
Subjects: Executions and executioners; History
Notes: "The romantic tales told of C. H. Sanson have their origin in the apocryphal Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de la revolution 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'Olbreuse (6 vols., 1862-1863) are equally fictitious."--Encyc. brit., v. 24, p. 183.

From a translation of "Sept générations d'exécuteurs" Paris, 1862-63.