Attempted Assassination of President Carnot.
The French President, Carnot, attended, July 13, the ceremonies of the official opening of a new thoroughfare in Paris, where he received an enthusiastic welcome by a large crowd assembled. Suddenly a roan, wild-eyed and making insane gestures, forced his way through the crowd, rushed to the carriage, and discharged a pistol at Carnot, shouting; “I’ll prove there are more Bastilles to be demolished.” The man was promptly arrested, and such was the anger of the orowd present that the officer had the greatest difficulty in protecting the prisoner from becoming a victim to popular fury. It was soon learned that the prisoner was a madman, and had just been released from confinement in a lunatic asylum
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Evening Star, Issue 8613, 5 September 1891, Page 2 (Supplement)
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122Attempted Assassination of President Carnot. Evening Star, Issue 8613, 5 September 1891, Page 2 (Supplement)
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