Business of the mail of Lyon

During the night of the 27 to the April 28th 1796, the Malle-poste which goes from Paris to Lyon is attacked, close to Green-Saint-Denis (Seine-et-Marne), by five individuals. The two postilions are assassinated, and the plundered mail coach: one steals eighty thousand books in currency and seven million in the form of Assignat S, intended for the armed with Italy.

Following the investigation, six men are marked: Misters Lesurques, Couriol, Guenot, Richard, Bruer and Bernard. At the end of the Lawsuit, Lesurques, Couriol, Bernard and Richard are recognized guilty, the three first are condemned to the Capital punishment. It is at this time that Couriol will declare that Lesurques is completely foreign with the Affaire (what it will reaffirm on the scaffold). Lesurques will be guillotine all the same.

One will find later the other persons in charge of the attack, Lesurques was victim of a Miscarriage of justice.

A street bears the name of Joseph Lesurques in the commune of Green-Saint-Denis. The business would have been conceived in a Parisian bar-restaurant (which always exists) with one of the angles of the street of Verneuil and the Rue of the Vat.

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Museum of the Post office
French history and besides
, film of Claude Autant-Lara and Maurice Lehmann

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