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Robispierre was hit by a bullet in the courthouse
Filed Under (english, Historia) by Targenor on 26-05-2010
Tagged Under : building, mayor, mob, protection, state
On the 14th of July 1789 an angry mob attacked the courthouse in Paris. The mayor Jacques de Flesselles tried to defend himself against the claims of royal sympaties but was shot on the stairs infront of the building.
Five years later, 1794 Robiespierre was seeking protection in the courthouse after the deathsentence against him had been singed, as he was marked as ”criminal against the state” Robbiespeirre was shot, or trying to commit suicide, despite what happned his jaw was seperated by the shot, Robiespierre survived but was killed in the giljotine the next day. The courthose burnt down in 1871 and toghether whit the courthouse almost every official document of the revulotion. A copy of Hôtel de Ville was built and it was finished in 1892.
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