Fieschi

Fieschi, JOSEPH, known by his attempt on the life of King Louis-Philippe, was born in Corsica in the year 1790. He served in Russia in 1812, and on Murat's expedition suffered imprisonment as a thief, but in 1830 got a small government appointment at Paris. Dismissed for fraudulent conduct, he secured accomplices in an audacious plan, and invented an infernal machine with twenty-four barrels, which was fired while the king and his party were passing the house, 28th July 1835. Eighteen people were killed, among whom was Marshal Mortier, but Louis-Philippe himself escaped with a mere scratch. Fieschi was immediately seized, and, along with his accomplices, was tried, condemned, and executed on 16th February 1836. See Ducamps, L'Attentat Fieschi (1877).