“MONSIEUR DE PARIS.”

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3994, 26 July 1913, Page 7

“MONSIEUR DE PARIS.”

THE FRENCH EXECUTIONER

The psychology of M. Deibler, the public executioner —“Monsieur de Paris” as the populace names him—that is the problem that a writer in the “Eclair” tackles, says the Paris correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph.” Js he a man like other men, that strange, sinister figure that appears from time to time in tragic dawns, to merge once more in nameless obscurity? Does he eat, drink, sleep, marry, and have children like another? Does he take a perverted pride in his awful trade, or is it hateful to him?

It is easier to ask such questions than to answer them. M. Diebler is not an approachable man. He grants no interviews; his door is barred to journalists. But a prefect, in whose department an execution lately took place, was able in a conversation with the writer to throw at-least a side-light on the enigma. It was 8 o’clock in the evening preceding the execution when Monsieur de Paris was introduced to the prefect’s office. “Perhaps,” suggested the official to his visitor, who stood silent and motionless, his eyes fixed on the ground, “you would like to receive suggestions as to a site for the erection of a guillotine? There is a square in the town which appears to me eminently suitable. It might bo worth your while to visit it.”

“I know it already, sir,” replied the executioner, without lifting his eyes.

“You know it?” repeated the prefect, in surprise, “but you have come straight here from the station. Have you ever visited us before?”

“Two years ago,” was tho answer, “I made a tour of France in a motor. It was my honeymoon. I passed through this town. I perfectly rememl>er the square of which you speak. It struck me at tho time as eminently suitable.” That little dialogue surely answers more than one of the questions set above. M. Deibler, if ho does not love his trade, has at least the professional conscience and the professional eye. As tho artist sees a canvas at every turning of the road, so M. Deibler fixed in his memory as suitable or unsuitable for the exei'cise of his terrible trade each square through which he passed. And remember that it was his honeymoon. One wonders if liis bride knew what was passing through his mind.

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