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Mighty Blow
Regeneration
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Anatole Deibler is arguably the most famous French executioner. He performed his trade from 1885 to 1939 at a time when photography and film were becoming widely available. The press was hungry for sensational stories and executions were still held in public. He existed as a sort of anachronism, the caretaker of a gruesome medieval ritual transposed into the modern world of automobiles, airplanes, industrialization and mass media.
He executed 395 men but not a single woman in a career that extended over 54 years.