Anatole François Joseph Deibler (29 November 1863 – 2 February 1939) was a French executioner who served as the 4th Monsieur de Paris from 1899 until his death in 1939.

He is considered one of the most famous executioners in French history due to the fact that most of his executions, and the cases tied to them, were of great public interest on account of widespread reporting by media.

[4] After serving mandatory military duty from 1882 to September 1885, Deibler began training as an executioner's assistant with his maternal grandfather Antoine.

Despite Fallières' efforts, the assembly, backed by public opinion protesting the pardon of child murderer and rapist Albert Soleilland [fr], refused to abolish capital punishment during a vote in 1909.

Another such execution would have almost occurred on 13 April 1913, when four members of the Bonnot gang, those being Raymond Callemin [fr], Étienne Monier, André Soudy [fr], and Eugène Dieudonné, were put to death in Paris, but Dieudonné had his sentence commuted to hard labour, later escaping the prisoner camp in Cayenne, French Guiana, after which he secured a complete pardon through legal action.

Afterwards, Deibler was relieved of his duties as executioner and instead placed in the position of secretary to the Ministry of the Armed Forces in August 1918, though with authorization of absence in the event of an execution.

[8] The last woman executed in France until this point, Georgette Thomas [fr], who murdered her mother Marie Lebon, was beheaded by Deibler's father in 1887.

There was more prejudice against him than American or English executioners because of a superstition that a French headsman had an evil eye that brought death or disaster to whoever caught glimpse.

[10] His final execution was that of 28-year-old Abdelkader Rakida, already convicted of murder in Algeria, on 24 January 1939 in Lyon, for violating a city ban and using a firearm to injure two policemen during his arrest.

[11][12] Deibler collapsed from a heart attack at Porte de Saint-Cloud metro station in the 16th arrondissement of Paris while on his way to Jacques-Cartier Departemental Prison in Rennes, where he would have performed his 300th execution the next day.