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Louis Xvi and Robespierre : Charles-Henri Sanson, the Executioner of the Terror

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Under a grey sky of January 1793, the Place de la Révolution exhales a smell of mud and sweat, mixed with the feverish expectation of a compact crowd. Charles-Henri Sanson, a massive silhouette draped with a dark coat, climbs the steps of the scaffold, the heavy heart. This executioner, heir to a cursed dynasty, is about to cut the head of Louis XVI, an act that will make his name change in eternity. Between duty and internal torment, he (...)
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Under a grey sky of January 1793, the Place de la Révolution exhales a smell of mud and sweat, mixed with the feverish expectation of a compact crowd. Charles-Henri Sanson, a massive silhouette draped with a dark coat, climbs the steps of the scaffold, the heavy heart. This executioner, heir to a cursed dynasty, is about to cut the head of Louis XVI, an act that will make his name change in eternity. Between duty and internal torment, he (...)

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agoravox.fr broke the news in on Friday, July 11, 2025.
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