Attack of the street Saint-Nicaise

The conspiracy of the explosive device is a Conjuration aiming at killing Napoleon Bonaparte, coldly become First consul following the Coup d'etat of the 18 Brumaire.

The December 24th 1800, a “explosive device” explodes in the passing of sound fits with body, street Saint-Nicaise, whereas it went to the opera. The attack made 22 died and a hundred casualties.

Miraculeusement survivor, Napoleon benefits from it to strike the camp Jacobin. The Senate thus draws up a list of proscribed, including one great part will be off-set. Joseph Fouché shows the royalist camp then, which will lead to the summary Exécution of the duke of Enghien, last kid of the Maison of Cop. Napoleon also leaves this attack convinced of the need for founding a new monarchical legitimacy: it will be the ceremony of the imperial sacring the December 2nd 1804.

In certain texts or certain reports carried out by the advisers of State (for example that of Fourcroy in January 1801 concerning the situation in the Vendée), it is refers to this attack under the term of “plot of the 3 Nivôse”.

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