Albert Fournier was guillotined on this date in 1920 in Tours, by France’s ubiquitous early 20th century headsman Anatole Deibler.
The previous August, Fournier murdered a M. Monmarche, his sister Mme. Vouteau, and their servant Marie Thillier, also raping the latter victim’s corpse.
Dear friends. – I have studied the life and crimes of Albert Fournier in archives in Tours, Angers and Melun (France). I am at present writing an article on Fournier, his career as a young man, his stay in prisons and service as a corporal in the First World War, until he formally was degraded and humiliated. Further on his return to Chambray-lès-Tours after another stay in prison, now broken in body and mind, violent, dangerous, aiming to kill. – I have seen one of the pictures from the anatomical auditory – the picture at the top, the most clear of them – but never the photography below. It is not represented neither in the Archives of Indre-et-Loire, situated at Tours (where he was executed), nor in the Archives of the Prefecture of Police in Paris, from where the three other existing pictures of Fournier stem. I would be very happy if our headsman or one of the visitors to this excellent blog might be able to inform me of the origin of the picture below. – Throw out the life belt, folks. Vagn Lyhne, Denmark.
Good the execution! Have done well to make see the body after beheading!
Thank you, headsman. It was kind of you.
Here you go:
http://guillotine.cultureforum.net/t107p45-photos-de-criminels
Dear friends. – I have studied the life and crimes of Albert Fournier in archives in Tours, Angers and Melun (France). I am at present writing an article on Fournier, his career as a young man, his stay in prisons and service as a corporal in the First World War, until he formally was degraded and humiliated. Further on his return to Chambray-lès-Tours after another stay in prison, now broken in body and mind, violent, dangerous, aiming to kill. – I have seen one of the pictures from the anatomical auditory – the picture at the top, the most clear of them – but never the photography below. It is not represented neither in the Archives of Indre-et-Loire, situated at Tours (where he was executed), nor in the Archives of the Prefecture of Police in Paris, from where the three other existing pictures of Fournier stem. I would be very happy if our headsman or one of the visitors to this excellent blog might be able to inform me of the origin of the picture below. – Throw out the life belt, folks. Vagn Lyhne, Denmark.
Someone should have given him a “heads up” that crime doesn’t pay.