Antoine Bernardin Fualdès
Antoine Bernardin Fualdès (1761-1817). Public prosecutor, judge of the criminal court of the Aveyron, imperial prosecutor in 1811.
Antoine Bernardin Fualdès was born with Wall-of-Bar in the Rouergue about 1761. Resulting from a family of dress, it has just finished its studies when the revolution bursts. Jacobin moderated, it will know its first hour of glory defending the general Custine of which it will manage to prove innocence, but not to avoid the execution. It will also take part in the defense of Charlotte Corday.
Named in the magistrature after the 18 Brumaire, it returns in 1811 to Rodez where it exerts the functions of imperial prosecutor. Affirmed Bonapartist, it knows disgrace with the advent of Louis XVIII, a transitory return posts some with the Hundred Days before taking his retirement under the Restauration.
The March 19th 1817, it is wildly assassinated under mysterious conditions and its body is found floating in the Aveyron. This assassination would be the work of the Chevaliers of the Faith. Among the raised theses, that of political revenge seems most probable: the royalists would have been avenged for the Fualdès prosecutor who had had a big part in the failure of the plot of Rodez in 1814.
The investigation and the lawsuit which will follow will give place to famous the Affaire Fualdès, which had an enormous repercussion through all the France and the Europe because of the sordid circumstances of the assassination, of the darkness of the business related to the disturbed political conditions of the beginnings of the Restauration and the beginning of the rise of the national press.
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