Business the Council
The business Conseil is an obscure business of espionage which put at the catches the France and the Suisse in 1836, under the Monarchie of July.
The Council is a French spy that the French Minister for the Interior, Camille de Montalivet, sent in Switzerland after the attack of Alibaud against Louis-Philippe (June 25th 1836) to infiltrate the mediums of French revolutionists who took refuge on the Swiss territory. The operation was entirely assembled by the ministry for the Interior, probably with the downstream of the king, whose Montalivet is one of the familiar ones, without informing the Foreign Minister and President of the Council, Adolphe Thiers.
For better doing accroire than Conseil is an important republican, the French government asks its expulsion the Swiss federal authorities by affirming that it is about a dangerous revolutionist, accessory to Fieschi, author of a very serious attack against the king the July 28th 1835.
But, for an unknown reason, the Council, far from playing the game, reveals all the machination by producing the false passports which were given to him by the French authorities. These revelations cause the indignation of the Swiss authorities, which require explanations of France. The French government, taken in red-handed, has of another resource to only lie shamelessly while shouting with the scandal and while shouting more extremely than the Swiss ones. Ultimately, in the month of November 1836, Switzerland decides to bury the business that she declares born of a “misunderstanding”.
Source
- Guy Antonetti, Louis-Philippe , Paris, Bookstore Arthème Beech, 2002, p. 763 - ISBN 2-213-59222-7