Title: Mémoires des Sanson
Description: 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), other Mémoires of Sanson, ed. by A. Grégoire, (pseud. for V. Lombard) in 1830, and by M. d'Olbreuze (6 vols., 1862-1863).
Subjects: Executions and executioners, History
Places: France
People: Sampson family
Time periods: Revolution, 1789-1799