place_of_birth maurice meyssonnier
High Justice is a 1974 collection ___MASK65___ science fiction short stories by American writer Jerry Pournelle . It was republished in an omnibus edition with " Exiles to Glory " in 2009 as " Exile -- and Glory ". ___MASK74___ was a collection ___MASK65___ territories in North Africa controlled by France and centering on French Algeria . At its height , it was a large part ___MASK65___ the Maghreb . ___MASK46___ , officially the French ___MASK12___ , is a country with territory in western Europe and several overseas regions and territories . The European , or metropolitan , area ___MASK65___ ___MASK46___ extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea , and from the Rhine to the ___MASK83___ . Overseas ___MASK46___ include French Guiana on the South American continent and several island territories in the Atlantic , Pacific and Indian oceans . ___MASK46___ spans and had a total population ___MASK65___ almost 67 million people as ___MASK65___ January 2017 . It is a unitary semi - presidential republic with the capital in Paris , the country ' s largest city and main cultural and commercial centre . Other major urban centres include Marseille , Lyon , Lille , Nice , Toulouse and Bordeaux . A Muslim is someone who follows or practises Islam , a monotheistic Abrahamic religion . Muslims consider the Quran ( Koran ), their holy book , to be the verbatim word ___MASK65___ God as revealed to the Islamic prophet and messenger Muhammad . They also follow the teachings and practices ___MASK65___ Muhammad (" sunnah ") as recorded in traditional accounts (" hadith "). " Muslim " is an Arabic word meaning " one who submits ( to God )". A judicial executioner is a person who carries out a death sentence ordered by the state or other ___MASK95___ authority , which was known in feudal terminology as high justice . Note that the role ___MASK65___ an executioner should not be confused with that ___MASK65___ an executor , a person who is responsible for executing ( meaning " following through on ") an assigned task or duty . ___MASK1___ (' " Dzayer "), officially the People ' s Democratic Republic ___MASK65___ ___MASK1___ , is a sovereign state in North Africa on the Mediterranean coast . Its capital and most populous city is ___MASK16___ , located in the country ' s far north . With an area ___MASK65___ , ___MASK1___ is the tenth - largest country in the world , and the largest in Africa . ___MASK1___ is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia , to the east by Libya , to the west by Morocco , to the southwest by the Western Saharan territory , Mauritania , and Mali , to the southeast by Niger , and to the north by the Mediterranean Sea . The country is a semi - presidential republic consisting ___MASK65___ 48 provinces and 1 , 541 communes ( counties ). Abdelaziz Bouteflika has been President since 1999 . An executor is someone who is responsible for executing , or following through on , an assigned task or duty . The feminine form , executrix , may sometimes be used . The role ___MASK65___ an executor should not be confused with that ___MASK65___ an executioner , a person who carries out a death sentence ordered by the state or other legal authority . French ___MASK1___ ( to 1839 , then ' afterward ; unofficially ', , ') began in 1827 with the blockade ___MASK65___ ___MASK16___ by the French navy and lasted from 1830 to 1962 , under a variety ___MASK65___ governmental systems . From 1848 until independence , the whole Mediterranean region ___MASK65___ ___MASK1___ was administered as an integral part ___MASK65___ France . The vast arid interior ___MASK65___ ___MASK1___ , like the rest ___MASK65___ French North Africa , was never considered part ___MASK65___ France . One ___MASK65___ France ' s longest - held overseas territories , ___MASK1___ became a destination for hundreds ___MASK65___ thousands ___MASK65___ European immigrants , known as ' and later , as '. However , indigenous Muslims remained a majority ___MASK65___ the territory ' s population throughout its history . Gradually , dissatisfaction among the Muslim population with its lack ___MASK65___ political and economic status fueled calls for greater political autonomy , and eventually independence , from France . Tensions between the two population groups came to a head in 1954 , when the first violent events ___MASK65___ what was later called the Algerian War began . The war concluded in 1962 , when ___MASK1___ gained complete independence following the March 1962 Evian agreements and the July 1962 self - determination referendum . The Algerian War , also known as the Algerian War ___MASK65___ Independence or the Algerian Revolution ('; or ') was a war between France and the Algerian National Liberation Front (- FLN ) from 1954 to 1962 , which led to Algeria gaining its independence from France . An important decolonization war , it was a complex conflict characterized by guerrilla warfare , fighting , and the use ___MASK65___ torture by both sides . The conflict also became a civil war between loyalist Algerians supporting a French Algeria and their Algerian nationalist counterparts . ___MASK16___ (" al - Jaz  er "; Algerian Arabic pronunciation :  Dzayer , ) is the capital and largest city of Algeria . In 2011 , the city ' s population was estimated to be around 3 , 500 , 000 . An estimate puts the population of the larger metropolitan city to be around 5 , 000 , 000 . ___MASK16___ is located on the Mediterranean Sea and in the north - central portion of Algeria . Maurice Meyssonnier was a Chief executioner in French ___MASK1___ . Meyssonnier family is linked to executioners as far back as 16th Century . Meyssonnier performed , among many others , the last guillotining ___MASK65___ a woman ( Madeleine Mouton in 1948 ) in ___MASK1___ , which was the second - to - last female guillotining in France and her colonies . He was succeeded by his son , Fernand Meyssonnier , who from young age served his father as assistant and eventually became the last executioner in French Algieria , even if formally never appointed , as Maurice retained his position but ceased to carry out the death sentences . A communist by his political belief , Meyssonnier in addition to his executioner duties was also a bar owner . ,