Conspiracy of Bicêtre

Conspiracy of Bicêtre, 28 meadow year II (June 16th, 1794).

The number of the prisoners did not cease increasing in the prisons of Paris. Armand Hermann, the instigator of the " Plot of the prisons" near Fouquier-Tinville the Conciergerie had even worried some can accommodate only 400 prisoners and they are 600 piled up. It found a means of unchoking the prisons by inventing the " Plot of the prisons".

These are forty-two victims which come from the Prison of Bicêtre. Armand Hermann, Minister for Justice, indeed invented a new manner of increasing the rate/rhythm of the judgments. It was the " Conspiracy of the prisons ". " were introduced; moutons" with the pay of the revolutionary Tribunal, charged with expionner and to denounce the " conspirateurs". The choice of the spies, almost all previously condemned like robbers or assassins was undoubtedly premeditated: one hopes to choke the interest which those could excite which will come afterwards, and it will come from there; One spreads that the prisoners are agitated.

Installation of the conspiracy

Named the François-Norbert Lucas and Pierre Balin are companions metal workers, both condemned one to ten years, the other at eighteen years of irons for vol. They had prepared their escape. They had received outside in a bread a file with which they had started to saw the bars of a window giving on the wall of round. They had imprudence to announce high that the following day they would be free and to propose in called Valagnos, working painter, to flee with them Valagnos was a spy; he made them cause and oppose to them that once arrived in the covered ways they would have to mislead the monitoring of the sentries. Valagnos submitted his report/ratio. Dupaumier, administrator of police force practiced a searching in the dungeon of François-Norbert Lucas and Pierre Balin; he discovered there a file and a ladder, pieces of joined together and twisted cloth edges. On this project of escape, Dupaumier and Valagnos, its second, erected scaffolding a romantic plot which tended (text of the prison) - that to force the stations of prisons to seize the citizens composing the armed force which kept the prison of Bicêtre, to go to Convention to cut the throat of the representatives of the people members of the Committees -. All the prisoners whom it rained in Valagnos to denounce were considered by the Court révolutunnaire and were condemned to death.

Judgment of the " conspirateurs"

The judgment of the " conspirateurs" was made in block in the room known as of Freedom (grand' room), it was 35, they were marked " of conspiracy against the Republic with the intention reversing the capacity with the profit of carried out révolutionnaires" One will associate there 5 defendants, condemned in the room known as of the Equality: Sebastien Filoux (priest), a teacher, Jacques Lamarche (garden), Jules-Henry Bulhem (18 year old clerk), Eugenie Iron ore (dressmaker) condemned not to have wanted to give its book of prayers.

List names of condemned

Pierre Balin (serruier); Nicolas Belleguelle (mail of dispatches; Large Jean-Paul (gauze weaver); Joseph Leroy (buffletier); François Dupont (stallholder); Jacques-Hyppolyte Curon (domestic); Etienne Bridier (ex-servant of room); Constant Bourquien ((abbot); Nicolas Janiot (founder); Paul Berson (known as Without-Concern, shoe-maker); Louis Laforge (button manufacturer); Etienne Prevost (pastrycook); Pierre Knight (commercial of horses); Jacques Valention (water carrier); Pierre-Joseph Masses (carpenter); Lucien-Joseph Richet (tanner); Pierre-Louis-darling Good (carpenter); Georges Offroy (ex-secretary of the Section of the Invalids; Casimir-Prosper Nephews (cartwright); François-Xavier Delattre (shoe-maker); Jean Ladrey (carpenter); Frederic Paulet (stallholder); Charles Quitre (tapestry maker); Jacques-Gabriel Arpillot (working out of silk); Nicolas Pear tree (shoe-maker); Louis Legrand (domestic); Ernest Berton (commercial of wine); Gregoire Tournier (second-hand dealer); Jean-Baptiste Delvaux (ragman); François-Norbert Lucas (metal worker); Pierre Dumont (baker); Andre Salef (manufacturer of cords with violin); Benjamin-Louis Mauclair (bookseller); Alexandre Bénard (marble sculptor); Lucien Veyssier (commercial of horses); Maurice Guyard (carpenter); Charles-Robert Staplère (garden). Were carried out with them: Sebastien Filoux (cleaned of Mortemart (High-Vienna); Louis-Charles Horion (musician); Jacques Lamarche (garden); Jules-Henry Bulhem (Clerk); Charles Rabourbin (vicar); Eugenie Iron ore (dressmaker).

All these victims were buried with the Cimetière of Picpus on June 16th, 1794.

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