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107 famous people found

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  Charles Henri SANSON

  French executioner

  1739 - 1806
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  Louis MANDRIN

  French smuggler (highwayman) from Dauphiné

  1725 - 1755
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  Rebecca NURSE

  Executed for witchcraft in the Salem witch trials

  1621 - 1692
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  William Few

  American Founding Father, lawyer, politician and jurist

  1748 - 1828
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  François-Jean LEFEBVRE DE LA BARRE

  French nobleman tortured and beheaded before his body was burnt on a pyre along with Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary nailed to his torso

  1745 - 1766
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  Pierre MARTIN

  French murderer

  1766 - 1833
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  Louis Pierre LOUVEL

  French murderer

  1783 - 1820
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  Giuseppe FIESCHI

  Chief conspirator in an attempt on the life of King Louis-Philippe of France in July 1835

  1790 - 1836
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  François RAVAILLAC

  French factotum in the courts of Angoulême and a regicide

  1578 - 1610
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  Eugène François VIDOCQ

  French criminalist

  1775 - 1857
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  Robert François DAMIENS

  Frenchman who attained notoriety by attempting to assassinate Louis XV of France

  1715 - 1757
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  Marquise de BRINVILLIERS

  French murderer

  1630 - 1676
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  Gaspard DE BESSE

  French highwayman

  1757 - 1781
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  Robert SURCOUF

  French privateer and slave trader

  1773 - 1827
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  MALESHERBES

  French statesman, minister, and afterwards counsel for the defence of Louis XVI

  1721 - 1794
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  Robert Catesby

  Leader of a group of English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605

  1573 - 1605
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  René DE LONGUEIL

  Surintendant des Finances under Louis XIII

  1596 - 1677
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  Jean-Claude-Luc MICHOUD

  French politician

  1781 - 1828
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  Jean-Baptiste LACOSTE

  French politician

  1753 - 1821
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  François-André ISAMBERT

  French lawyer, historian, and politician

  1792 - 1857