Conspiration des poignards

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The ' ' ' Conspiracy of the poignards' ' ' or ' ' ' Plot of l' Opéra' ' ' indicate a conspiracy of assassination against Napoleon Bonaparte, of which the mobiles n' were not clearly defined. Authorities of l' time presented it like an attempt d' assassination which was to reach the first consul at the exit of l' opera 18 vendémiaire year IX (October 10 1800), and which was prevented by the police force of Fouché. However, this version was very early given to causeVoir some in particular Adolphe Thiers, ' ' History of the Consulate and l' Empire' ' , Paris, Paulin, 1847, volume II, p. 333-334. In its ' ' Mémoires' ' , Fouché affirms that, towards mid-September 1800, it is d' question; a plot aiming at “assassinating to it first consul with l' Opera”. One named Harel, presented like “l' one of the accomplices”, made “in.liaison.with the police chief of the Lefebvre wars, the revelations with Bourienne, secretary of the first consul”, indicating entreated: “Roman Cerrachi and Diana, refugees; Arena, brother of the Corsican deputy who s' was declared against the first consul; the painter Topino Lebrun, patriotic fanatic, and Demerville, former clerk of Committee of public hello, closely dependent with Barrère”. Harel is charged to draw up a trap with entreated “in their getting, as he had promised it to them, four armed men, laid out with l' assassination of the first consul, in the evening of October 10, with the representation of l' opera of the ' ' Horaces' '. The day of the “d' show; attack”, “of the men stationed by the against-police force, and on the account of which entreated had been misused”, instead of stabbing Bonaparte, stop “themselves Diana, Cerrachi and their to complicesVoir it first left of the ' ' Memories of Joseph Fouché' ' , Paris, Red, 1824. ” Makes of It, if Diana and Cerrachi are well stopped, all the others presumedly entreated are apprehended in their residence Jean-Baptiste Honore Raymond Capefigue, ' ' L' Europe during the consulate and l' worsen of Napoléon' ' , Brussels, Wouters, Raspoet and Co, 1842, volume III, p. 33. For the historians modernesT. Lentz, ' ' Large Consulat' ' , 1999, p. 255, Jean Tulard, ' ' Napoleon or the myth of the sauveur' ' , 1987, p. 136. , c' is a handling of the police force, made possible by the contest d' a provocative agent, Harel, which had infiltrated the group of entreated. Decrees, the latter are interned with prison of the Temple. After l' attack of the street Saint-Nicaise, the members of the “conspiracy of the daggers”, presented by the capacity like a plot Jacobin, are judged in front of the criminal court of The Seine. Four d' between them are condemned to died 19 nivôse year IX (January 9 1801), “at eleven o'clock in the evening, after three days of debates” Lewis Goldsmith, ' ' Political and diplomatic course of Napoleon Bonaparte' ' , London, at J. Booth, volume II, 1816, p. 123-125., and carried out it January 30 according to, after rejection of the appeal.

Les conjurés

The members of the plot were:

• l' adjudant Joseph Antoine Aréna, brother of Barthelemy Aréna who would have tried to stab Bonaparte at the time of the blow d' State of the 18 brumaire;
• Dominique Demerville, former secretary of Barère;
• Giuseppe Ceracchi, Roman insurgent sculptor and, l' one of the founders of Roman republic in 1798;
• François Topino-Lebrun, painter, former student of Jacques Louis David and sworn with revolutionary tribunal;
• Joseph Diana, 28 years, other insurgent Roman, notary, discharged;
• Armand Daiteg, 67 years, sculptor, discharged;
• Denis Lavigne, 66 years, trader, discharged;
• Madeleine Fumey, 38 years, cooker or mistress of Demerville, acquittéeÉmile Marco de Saint-Hilaire, ' ' History of the conspiracies and the executions politiques' ' , Paris, Gustave Havard, 1849, p. 228-235.  · Jules Edouard Alboise of Pujol, Auguste Maquet, ' ' Prisons of l' Europe' ' , Paris, Administration of the Bookshop, 1845, p. 143-146 and 217.

Bibliographie

• Pierre Marie Desmarest ' ' Fifteen years of high police force under Napoléon' ' , Editions A. Levavasseur, 1833 Template:Comment biblio
• Gustave Hoots, ' ' A plot of police force under the consulat' ' , Editions Hatchet, 1909