November 29, 1863 - Anatole Deibler
France's longest-serving chief executioner, Deibler operated the guillotine across four decades at a time when press coverage and photography transformed public executions into national spectacles — and the executioner himself into a recognizable public figure. His career spanned the Belle Époque through the interwar period, touching some of the most sensational criminal cases of the era. The sheer duration and scale of his tenure, nearly four hundred executions, made him an institution within the French justice system rather than a peripheral figure within it.
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Anatole François Joseph Deibler (29 November 1863 – 2 February 1939) was a French executioner who served as the 4th Monsieur de Paris from 1899 until his death in 1939. During his 54-year career, he participated in the execution of 395 criminals.
He is considered one of the most famous executioners in French history due to the fact that most of his executions, and the cases tied to them, were of great public interest on account of widespread reporting by media. The advent of the camera made him somewhat of a celebrity.
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