The trial of the would-be assassin Giuseppe…
February 1836 CE
During the trial, he names his accomplices, displays much bravado, and expects or pretends to expect ultimate pardon.
He is represented by the Corsican lawyer François-Marie Patorni, and Parisian lawyers Jean-Baptiste-Nicolas Parquin and Gustave Louis Chaix d'est-Ange.
He is condemned to death, and is guillotined on February 19, 1836 together with Pierre Morey and Theodore Pépin.
Pepin dies first, then Morey.
Fieschi is the last, and uses his last moments for a speech.
Fieschi's head is given to a doctor at Bicêtre Hospital for study purposes.
Before his death Pepin had made several confessions about revolutionary groups which will lead to subsequent arrests and trials.
Another accomplice is sentenced to twenty years imprisonment and one is acquitted.
No fewer than seven plots against the life of Louis Philippe will be discovered by the police within the year; elements of the revolutionary press do not condemn Fieschi's crime.
Fourteen victims of Fieschi's attack are interred in the vaults of Les Invalides, which is usually the place of interment for French military leaders which the nation wishes to honor.
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