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GIUSEPPE MARCO FIESCHI (1790-1836)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 329 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GIUSEPPE MARCO

FIESCHI (1790-1836)  , the chief conspirator in the attempt on the
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life of Louis Philippe in
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July 1835, was a native of Murato in Corsica . He served under Murat, then returned to Corsica, where he was condemned to ten years' imprisonment and perpetual surveillance by the police for
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theft and forgery . After a period of vagabondage he eluded the police and obtained a small
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post in Paris by means of forged papers; but losing it on account of his suspicious manner of living, he resolved to revenge himself on society . He took lodgings on the Boulevard du Temple, and there, with two members of the Societe
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des Droits de 1'Homme, Morey and Pepin by name, contrived an " infernal machine," constructed with twenty
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gun barrels, to be fired simultaneously . On the 28th of July 1835, as Louis Philippe was passing along the boulevard to the Bastille, accompanied by his three sons and a numerous staff, the machine was exploded . A ball grazed the king's forehead, and his horse, with those of the duke of Nemours and of the prince de Joinville, was shot; Marshal Mortier was killed, with seventeen other persons, and many were wounded; but the king and the princes escaped as if by miracle . Fieschi himself was severely wounded by the discharge of his machine, and vainly attempted to escape . The attentions of the most skilful physicians were lavished upon him, and his life was saved for the stroke of justice . On his trial he named his accomplices, -displayed much bravado, and expected or pretended to expect ultimate pardon . He was condemned to
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death, and was guillotined on the 19th of
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February 1836 . Morey and Pepin were also executed, another accomplice was sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment and one was acquitted . No less than seven plots against the life of Louis Philippe had been discovered by the police within the
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year, and apologists were not wanting in the revolutionary press for the crime of Fieschi .

See Prod's de Fieschi, precede de sa

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vie privee, sa condamnation par la Cour des Pairs et celles de ses complices (2 vols., 1836) ; also P . Thureau-Dangin, Hist. de la monarchie de Juillet (vol. iv. ch. xii., 1884) .

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