Fernand Meyssonnier
Executioner, Deceased Person
1931 – 2008
Who was Fernand Meyssonnier?
Fernand Meyssonnier was an executioner in the last years of French Algeria. He acted as an executioner from 1947 to 1961 and killed more than 200 people.
He inherited the job of executioner from his father Maurice Meyssonnier in 1947 when he ended compulsory education. His ancestors had been executioners from ages ago. When Algeria became independent from France in 1961, the guillotine was replaced by execution by firing squad.
In 1961, shortly before Algerian independence, Fernand Meyssonnier went to Tahiti where he met his future wife with whom he had a daughter, and founded several businesses. After his retirement, he went to metropolitan France. He bought a house in Fontaine-de-Vaucluse where he died on August 8, 2008.
Meyssonnier had been erroneously called the "last executioner alive". In fact, he died the same year as Marcel Chevalier, the last French chief executioner, who served from 1976 to 1977.
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- Born
- Jun 14, 1931
- Also known as
- フェルナン・メイソニエ
- Parents
- Profession
- Died
- 2008
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on July 23, 2013
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