page_title: Giuseppe Marco Fieschi
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Giuseppe Marco Fieschi / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Panneau Histoire de Paris «&#160;Attentat de Fieschi&#160;»
context_page_description: Giuseppe Marco Fieschi was a Corsican and the chief conspirator in an attempted assassination of King Louis-Philippe of France in July 1835. Eighteen people were killed by the attack on the King and his entourage, but the King only received a minor wound and Fieschi was quickly captured. He and two other conspirators were subsequently tried and executed.
context_section_description: In the immediate aftermath of the attack, a number of newspaper editors and writers were arrested, including Armand Carrel. But they were soon released.
  Fourteen victims of Fieschi's attack were interred in the vaults of Les Invalides, which is usually the place of interment for French military leaders which the nation wishes to honor.
  Horace Vernet, the King's painter, was ordered to make a drawing of the assassination attempt, which Eugene Louis Lami executed. Fieschi's head was painted by the French painter Jacques Raymond Brascassat the day after the execution. A death mask was also made to record Fieschi's facial features. A copy of this is preserved in England at Norwich Castle; the mask shows evidence of the facial and head injuries he received. Another copy was part of the collection of the Edinburgh Phrenological Society and is now in the possession of the University of Edinburgh.
  A postmortem examination of Fieschi's brain was carried out by the anatomists Louis Pierre Gratiolet and François Leuret, to determine if it exhibited features that might explain his behavior.
  A plaque at n° 50 Boulevard du Temple commemorates the event. Giuseppe Fieschi was honored in a religious service at a Moscow church at the prompting of Soviet General Kotskov, the inventor of the Katyusha rocket launcher.
  Fieschi's volley gun, which became known as the Machine infernale, is now part of the collection of the Musée des Archives Nationales in Paris.
caption: The plaque at n° 50 Boulevard du Temple
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