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henri on october , , who succeeded his father in and charles-henri only attended. later, using the guillotine, sanson and his men executed successive waves of well-known revolutionaries, including danton , robespierre , saint-just , hébert and desmoulins . guillotine proponent[ edit ] after the revolution
. legacy[ edit ] sanson's eldest son gabriel ( – ) had been his assistant and heir apparent from , but he died after slipping off a scaffold as he displayed a severed head to the crowd. [ ] with his death, the hereditary obligation fell to the youngest son, henri ( – ), who was a soldier in the revolution...
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