Auctioned at the Drouot Hall, notebooks of the last French executioner Anatole Deibler. Dead in 1939, he guillotined 399 condemned. Commentary on illustration images, and interview with Eric BEAUSSANT, curator of the exhibition.
François Foucart, author of "Anatole Deibler: profession executioner", evokes the childhood of the executioner, son and grandson of executioner, including an anecdote at school where his comrades forced him to pretend to execute one of them.
François Foucart, author of "Anatole Deibler: profession bourreau", tells the story of Anatole Deibler, executioner, son and grandson of executioners and who did not necessarily want to become one.
François Foucart, author of "Anatole Deibler: profession bourreau", tells how this executioner with 399 guillotines lived daily between two executions.
François Foucart, author of "Anatole Deibler: profession bourreau", tells how Anatole Deibler, bourreau aux 399 executions died before being able to practice the 400th.
François Foucart, author of "Anatole Deibler: profession executioner", names the famous convicts whom Anatole Deibler executed, executioner with 399 guillotines, whose names he recorded in small notebooks.
Story of the method of execution of the executioner Anatole Deibler, executioner with 399 guillotines. To alleviate the suffering of the criminals he had to do, he put the ball-bearing cleaver of the guillotine and improve the rocking.