Fieschi, Giuseppe Maria

Fieschi, Giuseppe Maria

▪ French conspirator
born Dec. 13, 1790, Murato, Corsica, Fr.
died Feb. 19, 1836, Paris

      French republican conspirator who on July 28, 1835, unsuccessfully attempted to assassinate King Louis-Philippe.

      As a youth Fieschi served in the Neapolitan army. After returning to Corsica, he was imprisoned for theft for 10 years, from 1816 to 1826. Making his way to Paris after the July Revolution of 1830, he obtained government employment under the name Gérard. Apparently he also served for a time as a secret police agent among the Bonapartists. Later, however, he made contact with the republicans of the Société des Droits de l'Homme (Society for the Rights of Man), and with two of its members, Pierre Morey and Pierre Pépin, he contrived an “infernal machine” of 25 guns that could be discharged simultaneously. They fired the device at Louis-Philippe as he passed Fieschi's lodging on the Boulevard du Temple on his way to a review of the troops. The king and his sons escaped injury, but 18 persons were killed and many others wounded. The conspirators were guillotined.

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