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The plot of the rue Saint-Nicaise, also known as the Machine infernale plot, was an assassination attempt on the life of the First Consul of France, Napoleon Bonaparte, in Paris on 24 December 1800. It followed the ''conspiration des poignards'' of 10 October 1800, and was one of many Royalist and Catholic plots. The name of the ''Machine Infernale'', the "infernal device", was in reference to an episode during the sixteenth-century revolt against Spanish rule in Flanders. In 1585, during the Siege of Antwerp by the Spaniards, an Italian engineer in Spanish service had made an explosive device from a barrel bound with iron hoops, filled with gunpowder, flammable materials and bullets, and set off by a sawed-off shotgun triggered from a distance by a string. The Italian engineer called it ''la macchina infernale''. == The plotters == The ''machine infernale'' attempt on Napoleon’s life was planned by seven royalist Breton chouans. *Pierre Robinault de Saint-Régeant (1768–1801):〔The name of Pierre Robinault de Saint-Régeant (1768-1801)can also be spelled Saint-Régent, Saint-Réjeant, Saint-Réjant, or Saint-Réjan〕 a supporter of Louis XVIII, Saint-Régeant had tried to stir a revolt in western France the previous year, and had publicly torn up Napoleon’s offer of amnesty to the Vendéens. *Pierre Picot de Limoëlan (1768–1826): the gentleman son of a guillotined royalist nobleman. *Georges Cadoudal (1771–1804): the giant Chouannerie leader. *Jean-Baptiste Coster (1771–1804): one of Cadoudal’s ablest lieutenants, known as Saint-Victor. *The other three plotters were the noblemen Joyaux d’Assas, Jérôme Pétion de Villeneuve, and La Haye-Saint-Hilaire. Cadoudal had charged Limoëlan and Saint-Régeant with the task of taking Napoleon’s life. They in turn enlisted an older Chouan named François-Joseph Carbon (1756–1801), “a stocky man with a fair beard and a scar on his brow,” who had fought in the wars of the Vendée under the rebel leader Louis-Auguste-Victor, Count de Ghaisnes de Bourmont. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Plot of the rue Saint-Nicaise」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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