biography
| name: |
Fieschi, Giuseppe Maria
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pronunciation:
[fieskee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1790–1836)
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| biography:
| Republican conspirator, born in Murato, Corsica. A member of a French republican group, he helped to construct ‘an infernal machine’ of 25 guns firing simultaneously at King Louis-Philippe in 1835. Eighteen people were killed, but the king escaped almost unhurt, and Fieschi was executed after trial. |
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