GIUSEPPE MARCO See also:FIESCHI (1790-1836)
, the See also:chief conspirator in the See also:attempt on the See also:life of See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis Philippe in See also:July 1835, was a native of Murato in See also:Corsica
.
He served under See also:Murat, then returned to Corsica, where he was condemned to ten years' imprisonment and perpetual surveillance by the See also:police for See also:theft and See also:forgery
.
After a See also:period of vagabondage he eluded the police and obtained a small See also:post in See also:Paris by means of forged papers; but losing it on See also:account of his suspicious manner of living, he resolved to revenge himself on society
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He took lodgings on the See also:Boulevard du See also:Temple, and there, with two members of the Societe See also:des Droits de 1'Homme, Morey and Pepin by name, contrived an " infernal See also:machine," constructed with twenty See also:gun barrels, to be fired simultaneously
.
On the 28th of July 1835, as Louis Philippe was passing along the boulevard to the See also:Bastille, accompanied by his three sons and a numerous See also:staff, the machine was exploded
.
A See also:ball grazed the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king's forehead, and his See also:horse, with those of the See also:duke of See also:Nemours and of the See also:prince de See also:Joinville, was shot; See also:Marshal See also:Mortier was killed, with seventeen other persons, and many were wounded; but the king and the princes escaped as if by See also:miracle
.
See also:Fieschi himself was severely wounded by the See also:discharge of his machine, and vainly attempted to See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape
.
The attentions of the most skilful physicians were lavished upon him, and his life was saved for the stroke of See also:justice
.
On his trial he named his accomplices, -displayed much bravado, and expected or pretended to expect ultimate See also:pardon
.
He was condemned to See also:death, and was guillotined on the 19th of See also:February 1836
.
Morey and Pepin were also executed, another See also: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 See also:year, and apologists were not wanting in the revolutionary See also:press for the See also:crime of Fieschi
.
See Prod's de Fieschi, precede de sa See also:vie privee, sa condamnation See also: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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