Executioner’s tales offered a slice of life a century ago
LAST month, 14 notebooks containing the gruesome diaries of Anatole Deibler, France’s last public executioner, were sold in Paris at Beaussant-Lefèvre (17.94% buyer’s premium) for €85,000 (£55,600).
With their neat handwriting on lined paper within drab beige covers, the 2000 pages recount in chill…