Nicolas Levasseur ????-1685
Charles-Louis Sanson 1685 (de facto)/1688 (official)-1699 (de facto)/1703 (official)
Charles Sanson 1699 (de facto)/1707 (official)-1726
François Prudhomme 1726-1739
Charles-Jean-Baptiste Sanson 1739-1754 (de facto)/1778 (official)
Charles-Henri Sanson 1754 (de facto)/1778 (official)-1793 (de facto)/1804 (official)
Henri Sanson 1793 (de facto)/1804 (official)-1840
Henry-Clément Sanson 1840-1847 (he was an inveterate abolitionist)
Charles-André Férey 1847-1849
Jean-François Heidenreich 1849-1871