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The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England, Volume 1 (of 6), volume 1

Note 323 — BOOK V[218]

Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation

Charles Henri Sanson (b. 1739), appointed public executioner in 1778 by Louis XVI., who died by his hand fifteen years later.—B.

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