Charles Jean-Baptiste Sanson

Charles Jean-Baptiste Sanson (シャルル＝ジャン・バチスト・サンソン Sharuru Jan Bachisuto Sanson) is the main characters father and the chief executioner of all of France, the former "Monsieur De Paris".

Appearance
Jean is a middle aged man with light hair that is tightly tied into a thin ponytail. His skin and hair are shown grey or greyish in the colored illustration of the fifth volume of Innocent and in the trailer for Innocent Rouge. (Noting that in the second volume were the in-story painting was made, he is only 35 years old.) He possesses very strong facial features and has a cold piercing gaze (of a glaucous color), which is a known trademark of the Sanson family. As he ages, his facial features look increasingly corpse-like.

Personality
He is considered a heartless and cold person, but while torturing his son Charles as a punishment for refusing to take the mantle and duty of family, he started crying and begging Charles to stop being defiant and do his duty as Sanson, which shows that he most likely was similar to his son Charles in past and that he also didn't wish to become an executioner. This seems to be further confirmed during one of Jean's panic attacks as he was holding onto his mother and crying like a child stating how he doesn't want to be an executioner, which indicates he once also had samethe weakness as his own son. Despite this, he puts in public a respectable, humble, dignified, cold, heartless and semi-glorious figure. He uses polite speech, bu knows how to be commending in subtle but clear ways. He is also very secretive and morally ambiguous and keep hiss callous facade in front of everyone, including family members (or at least is good at doing so most of the time). Despite the fact that his behavior can be on the edge of cruelty, he never engages in sadism.

He retired from family business due to a stroke, which resulted in parts of his body becoming paralyzed.