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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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FIESCHI (1790-1836)  , the See also:chief conspirator in the See also:attempt on the See also:life of See also: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 . 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'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 . 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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