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HISTORY: Assassination Attempt Napoleon Bonaparte - December 24, 1800 - UDB
HISTORY: Assassination Attempt Napoleon Bonaparte - December 24, 1800 - UDB

HISTORY: Assassination Attempt Napoleon Bonaparte - December 24, 1800 - UDB

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Availability: 18 in stock
  • Machine Infernale: Explosive
  • Condition: This Undivided Back Era (1901-07) postcard is in good condition.
  • France: Paris
  • Refund will be given as: Money Back
  • Type: Printed (Lithograph)
  • Napoleon Bonaparte: First Consul of France
  • Theme: People
  • All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
  • Region: France
  • Item must be returned within: 14 Days
  • Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
  • Subject: Historical Figure
  • Era: Undivided Back (c. 1901-1907)
  • Features: Etching
  • Assassination Attempt: Royalist Plot
  • Postage Condition: Unposted

    Description

    HISTORY: Assassination Attempt Napoleon Bonaparte - December 24, 1800: The plot of the rue Saint-Nicaise, also known as the Machine infernale plot, was an assassination attempt on the life of the First Consul of France, Napoleon Bonaparte, in Paris on 24 December 1800. It followed the conspiration des poignards of 10 October 1800, and was one of many Royalist and Catholic plots. The name of the Machine Infernale, the "infernal device", was in reference to an episode during the sixteenth-century revolt against Spanish rule in Flanders. In 1585, during the Siege of Antwerp by the Spaniards, an Italian engineer in Spanish service had made an explosive device from a barrel bound with iron hoops, filled with gunpowder, flammable materials and bullets, and set off by a sawed-off shotgun triggered from a distance by a string. The Italian engineer called it la macchina infernale. This Undivided Back Era (1901-07) postcard is in good condition. Neurdein Brothers. Paris. No. 124.