Simon François Bernard
Simon François Bernard (28 January 1817 in Carcassonne, France – 25 November 1862 in London) was a French surgeon and republican revolutionary. He is best known for his involvement in the 1858 plot of Felice Orsini to assassinate Napoleon III.
Bernard was a
Henry Hawkins;[3] and was acquitted, sensationally. He had opted for a completely English jury, and his defence council's rhetoric outweighed the summing-up of the judge, which tended towards a conviction.[1] However, Bernard apparently was targeted by a female spy in the employ of the Second Empire, and made the error of revealing his French friends and contacts. These were subsequently rounded up and executed by the French government. Bernard, upon learning this, went insane. He died at the Brook House Lunatic Asylum in Upper Clapham, London on 25 November 1862.[4]
Those who spoke at his funeral were
Philadelphes.[5]
References
- Bensimon, Fabrice. "Bernard, Simon Francis". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/92469. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
Notes
- ^ a b Margot C. Finn, After Chartism: Class and Nation in English Radical Politics 1848–1874 (2004), p. 183; Google Books.
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/314599. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/33770. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ Frederic Boase, Modern English Biography(1904), vol IV, col.380,
- ^ Milorad M. Drachkovitch,, The Revolutionary Internationals, 1864–1943 (1966), p. 44; Google Books.
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