Executions between 1879 & 1977
| Date & place | Name & comments |
|---|---|
| 1879.05.19 Agen | Pierre Laprade |
| 1880.01.19 Paris | Victor Prévost |
| 1880.09.07 Paris | Louis Ménesclou |
| 1882.03.31 Versailles | Pierre Lantz |
| 1884.04.30 Paris | Michel Campi |
| 1885.04.24 Paris | Adolphe Tiburce Gamahut |
| 1885.09.08 Algiers | Francesco Arcano (Anatole Deibler's first execution. He was aide to his grandfather Antoine Rasseneux, bourreau of Algiers) |
| 1886.02.02 Caen | Benoît Jeton |
| 1886.10.04 Paris | Joseph Frey and Pierre Rivière |
| 1887.01.24 Romorantin | Georgette and Sylvain Thomas |
| 1887.08.31 Paris | Henri-Jacques Pranzini |
| 1887.11.18 Châteauroux | Hippolyte Paviot |
| 1888.09.05 Sartène | Xavier Rocchini |
| 1888.10.31 Paris | Charles Mathelin |
| 1889.08.17 Paris | Giuseppe Quinto Alorto and Jean-Baptiste Désiré Sellier |
| 1889.08.19 Paris | Ribot |
| 1889.08.20 Paris | Jeantroux |
| 1891.02.03 Paris | Michel Eyraud |
| 1891.04.18 Troyes | Ferdinand Robin |
| 1891.05.02 Blois | Denis Rebours |
| 1891.05.09 Chambéry | Gian-Maria Spaggiari |
| 1891.05.13 Arras | Pierre Merger |
| 1891.06.03 Evreux | François Firoteau |
| 1891.07.11 Nancy | Eugene Meunier |
| 1891.07.27 Paris | Gustave Doré and Adolphe Berland |
| 1891.08.13 Avesnes-sur-Helpe | Louis-Isidore Jeulin and Alfred-Leonard Demeaux |
| 1891.08.28 Douai | François-Onésime "Emile" Baillet |
| 1891.10.20 Bordeaux | Géraud "Paul" Aurusse |
| 1892.03.12 Le Mans | Magloire Emonet |
| 1892.03.15 Aix-en-Provence | Etienne Cournou |
| 1892.03.21 Saint-Nazaire | Emile David |
| 1892.04.09 Paris | Louis Anastay |
| 1892.04.16 Dijon | Jean-Claude Charton |
| 1892.07.05 Valence | Mathias Hadelt |
| 1892.07.11 Montbrison | François-Claudius "Ravachol" Koënigstein |
| 1892.07.20 Rennes | Julien Communal |
| 1892.07.21 Caen | Henri-Pierre "Tardieu" Jean |
| 1892.07.23 Montpellier | Joseph Marius Martini |
| 1892.12.16 Paris | Eugène Crampon |
| 1893.06.26 Saint-Mihiel | François Redt |
| 1893.06.28 Versailles | Jules-Léon Dupalu |
| 1894.01.17 Melun | Charles Scherer |
| 1894.01.29 Lyon | Jean-Marie Busseuil |
| 1894.02.05 Paris | Auguste Vaillant |
| 1894.02.13 Coutances | Auguste Mathey |
| 1894.02.16 Niort | Marseil Sabourin |
| 1894.04.19 Dijon | Auguste Laureau |
| 1894.05.21 Paris | Emile Henry |
| 1894.07.24 Pau | Joachim Noray |
| 1894.07.27 Rouen | Raymond Gamelin |
| 1894.08.03 Limoges | Jean Bouchareichat |
| 1894.08.16 Lyon | Santo-Hierominus Caserio (murderer of Président Sadi Carnot) |
| 1894.08.17 Montbrison | Jean Servajean |
| 1894.08.30 Laval | Father Albert Bruneau (killer of another priest) |
| 1895.09.16 Draguignan | Toussaint Simon and César Barillot |
| 1897.01.14 Hazebrouck | René Van Yngelandt |
| 1897.01.18 Nancy | Dominique Harsch |
| 1898.02.12 Bastia | Jean Fazzini |
| 1898.05.09 Angoulême | Georges Soulat |
| 1898.06.25 Paris | Xavier Carrara |
| 1898.06.27 Vesoul | Justin Priolet |
| 1898.07.22 Angoulême | Eugène Vinsseneaud |
| 1898.08.19 Evreux | Alphonse Caillard |
| 1898.11.26 Brest | Victor Malavoi |
| 1898.12.31 Bourg-en-Bresse | Joseph Vacher |
| Louis Deibler abdicated in favour of his son Anatole on the 2nd of January 1898 | |
| 1899.01.14 Troyes | Pierre-François Damoiseau |
| 1899.02.01 Paris | Alfred Peugnez |
| 1899.02.08 Remiremont | Aloïs Zuckermeyer |
| 1899.05.12 Saint-Nazaire | Felix Geffroy and Adrien Samson |
| 1899.08.07 Montbrison | Louis-Adolphe Borde |
| 1900.02.10 Lyon | Evariste Nouguier and Ernest Gaumet |
| 1900.10.19 Saint-Gaudens | Etienne Portes |
| 1901.05.02 Toulouse | Jean Allières |
| 1901.09.09 Rouen | Etienne Bouvier |
| 1901.11.11 Montbrison | Jean Emile Lejour |
| 1903.01.09 Lille | Maurice Bouché |
| 1903.04.09 Saint-Mihiel | Théophile Leclerc |
| 1903.12.03 Beauvais | Auguste Potin |
| 1905.04.12 Nancy | Jean Jeannin |
| 1905.06.28 Orléans | Henri Languille |
| 1905.08.05 Dunkerque | Charles Swartewagher and Jean Van den Bogaert |
| 1905.10.06 Belfort | Antonio Pozzi |
| 1909.01.11 Béthune | Abel and Auguste Pollet, Canut Vromant and Théophile Deroo "Bandits of Hazebrouck" |
| 1909.01.26 Carpentras | Rémy Danvers |
| 1909.02.10 Albi | Pierre Simorre and Henri Besse |
| 1909.08.05 Paris | Henri Duchemin (first exécution at the Santé prison) |
| 1909.09.22 Valence | Urbain Liottard, Louis Berruyer and Octave David "Chauffeurs de la Drôme" |
| 1909.11.06 Saintes | Camille Favre |
| 1909.12.01 Montbrison | Henri Riboulet |
| 1910.01.06 Montauban | Jean Hébrard |
| 1910.05.24 Sisteron | François "Franzoni" Olive |
| 1910.05.27 Orléans | Sylvain Laroche |
| 1910.07.01 Paris | Jean-Jacques Liabeuf |
| 1910.09.23 Remiremont | Séraphin Vançon |
| 1910.09.24 Saint-Dié | Adrien Pierrel |
| 1910.09.29 Rodez | Jean Terry |
| 1910.11.30 Le Mans | Joseph Valentin Doilin |
| 1911.01.11 Lille | Antoine Favier |
| 1911.03.25 Nantes | Jules Grand |
| 1911.07.21 Vitry-le-François | Henri Deviot |
| 1911.07.22 Saint-Mihiel | Charles Philippo |
| 1911.10.04 Nancy | Lucien Alexandre |
| 1911.10.10 Toulon | Edouard Caturegli |
| 1911.12.08 Le Mans | Henri Hamet |
| 1912.01.09 Saint-Brieuc | Alphonse Boursier |
| 1912.01.20 Paris | Arthur Renard |
| 1912.02.03 Marseille | Joseph Rosa |
| 1912.03.28 Le Mans | Henri Nolot and Benjamin Tisseau |
| 1912.03.29 Laval | Paul Bourges |
| 1912.05.04 Coutances | Pierre Polydor |
| 1912.05.31 Saint-Pol-on-Ternoise | Robert Duperrat |
| 1912.06.05 Riom | Guillaume Courmier |
| 1912.07.08 Auxerre | Paul Aubert |
| 1912.10.22 Paris | Jean-Baptiste Bour |
| 1913.01.22 Nancy | Georges Gérard |
| 1913.02.01 Versailles | Joseph Renard |
| 1913.02.08 Le Mans | Gustave Auxerre |
| 1913.04.19 Versailles | Charles Barré |
| 1913.04.21 Paris | Raymond "la Science" Callemin, André Soudy and Etienne "Symentoff" Monier (survivors of the famous "Bande à Bonnot") |
| 1913.05.15 Béthune | Auguste Lhomme |
| 1913.07.11 Paris | Georges Laage |
| 1913.12.24 Dunkerque | Clément Monvoisin |
| 1914.07.11 Nevers | Robert Fabre |
| 1914.07.17 Tours | Maurice Doucet |
| 1914.12.23 Bastia | François Tomasini |
| 1918.03.26 Furnes (Belgique) | Emiel Ferfaille |
| 1918.09.02 Draguignan | Armand Spadoni and Jean Grilli |
| 1919.02.18 Digne | Lucien Giraud |
| 1921.02.03 Dunkerque | Michel Bauw |
| 1921.09.02 Carpentras | Jean Cortès |
| 1921.10.07 Quimper | Yves Hervé |
| 1921.10.20 Strasbourg | François Frintz and Albert Luntz |
| 1922.01.30 Carpentras | Alessandro Aletto and Fortunato Aloïa |
| 1922.02.02 Marseille | René Bouy and Jerôme Marcheselli |
| 1922.02.25 Versailles | Henri-Désiré Landru |
| 1922.05.20 Rennes | Fernand Lagadec |
| 1922.05.23 Paris | Emile Loeuillette, Louis Cadet |
| 1922.06.30 Metz | Emile Flaesch and Fredéric Schneider |
| 1922.07.06 Châteauroux | Alexandre Lucas and Alphonse Daubord |
| 1922.07.11 Evreux | Léon Gicquel |
| 1922.08.02 Paris | Jacques-Mécislas Charrier |
| 1922.10.10 Saint-Brieuc | Eugène Huguet |
| 1923.01.24 Paris | Félix Gounaud |
| 1923.02.20 Laon | François Thys |
| 1923.06.15 Sarrebruck (Germany) | August Weibel |
| 1923.09.07 Nancy | Jozef Witkowski and Szczepan Kazmierowski |
| 1923.10.09 Aix-en-Provence | Félix Gueydan |
| 1923.12.22 Toulon | Marcellin Delval |
| 1924.01.12 Lille | Louis Dumont |
| 1924.02.08 Carcassonne | André-Garcia Téjeron |
| 1925.03.23 Saint-Pol-on-Ternoise | Antonief Paprocki |
| 1925.03.24 Lille | Henri Olivier |
| 1925.10.31 Aix-en-Provence | Yves Couliou |
| 1927.02.08 Bordeaux | Fernand Jeanty |
| 1927.06.03 Montauban | Félix Blanquefort |
| 1927.07.08 Metz | Marcel Sinn |
| 1928.03.22 Epinal | Paul Valence |
| 1928.03.27 Rouen | Paul-Emile Lasgi |
| 1928.04.03 Paris | Wladimir Zinczuk and Julien Pachowski |
| 1928.04.14 Caen | William Follain |
| 1928.05.04 Dunkerque | Lucien Beyen |
| 1928.05.19 Périgueux | André Bellier |
| 1928.06.21 Montbrison | Jacques Montagnon and Joseph Allier |
| 1928.08.24 Foix | François Dedieu |
| 1928.10.06 Bourg-en-Bresse | Georges Niogret |
| 1928.10.11 Metz | Alphonse Herbivo |
| 1929.02.08 Strasbourg | Emile Quirin |
| 1929.02.19 Valence | René Frédillon |
| 1929.02.26 Amiens | Serge Gambier |
| 1929.03.21 Douai | Léon Vandredeuil |
| 1929.05.15 Marseille | Bonaventure Balsanti |
| 1930.01.24 Digne | Jules-Alexandre Ughetto |
| 1930.03.20 Douai | Charles Massalis |
| 1930.04.02 Versailles | Marcel Morice |
| 1930.05.06 Reims | Albert Clarisse |
| 1930.05.09 Boulogne-sur-Mer | Paul Dufour |
| 1930.05.16 Marseille | Jean-Baptiste Guiffaut |
| 1930.06.21 Rouen | Henri Verdière |
| 1930.06.26 Vannes | Jean-Marie Gabillard |
| 1930.07.26 Dunkerque | Félix Bergeron |
| 1930.07.29 Périgueux | Firmin Cipière |
| 1930.08.05 Quimper | Yves Le Floch |
| 1930.09.20 Puy-en-Velay | Marius Chabrolles |
| 1930.11.25 Metz | Roman Daszkowski |
| 1930.11.28 Rouen | Alfred Fleury |
| 1931.10.15 Paris | Mohamed Ben Driss |
| 1931.12.26 Paris | Georges Gauchet |
| 1932.07.07 Montbrison | Antoine Martin |
| 1932.07.27 Le Mans | Henri Nicolas |
| 1932.09.14 Paris | Pavel Timothéïévitch Gorguloff |
| 1932.09.22 Versailles | Abel Barranger |
| 1932.09.27 Caen | Bedrat Rabach |
| 1933.02.09 Riom | Martin Evaux |
| 1933.06.09 Reims | Xavier Cornet |
| 1933.07.20 Angoulême | Paul Véteau and Jean Martin |
| 1933.10.24 Béthune | Anton Cwojozinski |
| 1933.11.14 Béthune | Alphonse Lemaire |
| 1933.11.23 Bordeaux | Pierre Delafet |
| 1933.12.15 Toulon | Marcel Grandoux |
| 1934.04.10 Aix-en-Provence | Georges Sarrejani (lawyer who used sulfuric acid to dissolve corpses) |
| 1934.04.13 Bastia | Jean-Baptiste Torre |
| 1934.04.30 Marseille | Camille Maucuer |
| 1934.05.24 Epinal | Gaston Philippot |
| 1935.04.12 Châlon-sur-Saône | Henri Putigny |
| 1935.06.21 Bastia | André Spada |
| 1936.02.15 Avignon | Michel Nicolini |
| 1936.02.17 Draguignan | Guiseppe Sasia |
| 1936.04.04 Rodez | Henri Bourdon |
| 1936.08.10 Grenoble | Antonio Rocchini |
| 1936.08.13 Arras | Casimir Danquerke |
| 1936.10.24 Draguignan | Juan-Manuel Rodriguez |
| 1937.03.03 Limoges | Henri Dardillac |
| 1938.01.14 St-Brieuc | Lucien Boulay (Anatole Deibler is ill, and is replaced by Henri Desfourneaux) |
| 1938.04.28 Lille | Fernand Hubert |
| 1938.06.15 Epinal | Camille Charbonnier |
| 1939.01.24 Lyon | Rakida Abdelkader (299th and last exécution for Anatole Deibler) |
| (Anatole dies the 2nd February, Desfourneaux replaces him) | |
| 1939.02.04 Rennes | Maurice Pilorge |
| 1939.06.17 Versailles | Eugène Weidmann |
| 1939.07.19 Saint-Brieuc | Jean Dehaene (first exécution inside the prison) |
| 1940.06.06 Paris | Fritz Erler and Maurice Garnotel |
| 1941.01.08 Bordeaux | Elisabeth Ducourneau |
| 1941.05.24 Albi | Ernest Rose |
| 1941.08.28 Paris | Abraham Trézbucki, André Bréchet and Emile Bastard (guillotined just because they were communists) |
| 1941.09.23 Paris | Jacques Woog, Adolphe Guyot and Jean Cathelas (guillotined just because they were communists) |
| 1942.07.23 Paris | Edgar Lefebure, Henri Eugene Meunier and André Joseph Dalmas |
| 1942.09.24 Béziers | Hubert Englan, Roch Englan and Elie-Louis Eychenne |
| 1943.04.27 Béziers | Diégo Banos |
| 1943.06.29 Châlon-sur-Saône | Mrs Sinska Czeslawa |
| 1943.07.23 Toulouse | Marcel Langer (Chief of South-West Resistance) |
| 1943.07.30 Paris | Marie-Louise Giraud |
| 1943.10.30 Agen | Pierre Juge |
| 1943.12.04 Lyon | Simon Fryd |
| 1943.12.15 Carpentras | Serge Fede |
| 1946.05.25 Paris | Marcel Petiot |
| 1947.06.11 Paris | Albert Brunet |
| 1949.04.21 Angers | Germaine Godefroy |
| 1950.04.14 Marseille | Amor Ben Allal and Mohamed Chabani |
| 1950.05.24 Poitiers | Raymond Gui and Louis Eugène Balin |
| 1950.07.12 Metz | Michel Watrin |
| 1950.07.27 Marseille | Abdelkader Djaoui, Ahmed Chaïbeddera and Ramdane ben Slimane |
| 1951.07.13 Amiens | Daniel Sabin |
| Desfourneaux died the 1st October 1951. The 1st November, his cousin André Obrecht takes over his job. | |
| 1951.11.13 Marseille | Marcel Ythier |
| 1951.11.28 Nantes | Joseph Jadaud |
| 1951.12.08 Marseille | Léon Chaudon and Antoine Véruni |
| 1952.02.14 Chalon-sur-Saône | Nicolas Stéphan |
| 1952.02.23 Melun | Stanislas Gwisdak |
| 1952.03.25 Paris | Jean Trignac |
| 1952.04.05 Paris | Marcel Delrue |
| 1952.07.04 Laon | Raymond Peyrat |
| 1952.04.26 Amiens | Michel Courtin |
| 1952.07.22 Metz | Eugenio Cocchi |
| 1953.02.17 Metz | Ameur Messaoud |
| 1953.10.30 Nancy | René Peter |
| 1955.07.28 Douai | Jules Duhameau |
| 1956.01.24 Paris | Louis Mathiau |
| 1956.02.28 Paris | Emile Buisson |
| 1957.06.22 Amiens | Kleber Delaire |
| 1957.10.01 Paris | Jacques Fesch |
| 1957.11.26 Besançon | André Lods |
| 1957.12.07 Marseille | Alexandre Nickichine |
| 1958.08.06 Paris | Jean-Claude Vivier |
| 1958.08.08 Lyon | Jean Guyenot |
| 1958.09.27 Paris | Bellil Abdallah |
| 1958.11.04 Paris | René Delville |
| 1959.04.14 Paris | Jean Dupont |
| 1959.07.30 Metz | Abcha Ahmed |
| 1960.06.21 Bordeaux | René Pons |
| 1960.07.26 Paris | Georges Rapin |
| 1961.12.07 Marseille | Louis Jalbaud |
| 1964.03.17 Paris | Stanislas Juhant |
| 1964.06.17 Fort-de-France | Raymond Anama |
| 1964.06.27 Lyon | Robert Actis and Mazouz Ghaouti |
| 1965.06.22 Fort-de-France | Lambert Gau |
| 1966.03.22 Lyon | Saïd Hachani |
| 1967.12.16 Metz | Gunther Volz |
| 1969.03.11 Amiens | Jean-Laurent Olivier |
| 1972.11.28 Paris | Roger Bontems and Claude Buffet |
| 1973.05.12 Marseille | Ali Ben Yanes |
| 1976.07.28 Marseille | Christian Ranucci |
| Old and ill (Parkinson's disease), Obrecht quits. His nephew by marriage Marcel Chevalier replaced him on the 30th September 1976 | |
| 1977.06.23 Douai | Jerôme Carrein |
| 1977.09.10 Marseille | Hamida Djandoubi |