Fictionalized Accounts
- Charles-Henri Sanson appears in a minor but significant role in Susanne Alleyn's historical mystery novel Palace of Justice (2010) and makes a cameo appearance in Alleyn's A Far Better Rest (2000), a re-telling of Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities. His son Henri Sanson (1767-1840) plays an important role in Alleyn's Game of Patience (2006).
- Charles-Henri's life is heavily and rather inaccurately fictionalized in German author H.M. Mons's novel The Sword of Satan (1954).
- Jim Shepard's story "Sans Farine," from his collection Like You'd Understand, Anyway (2007), presents a fictionalized autobiography of Charles-Henri Sanson.
- Charles-Henri Sanson appears as a minor but significant character in Hilary Mantel's novel A Place of Greater Safety (1992)
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