Executions of Chevalier and Saint-Régeant
- When
- January 11 – April 20, 1801
- Where
- Place de Grève, Paris (Saint-Régeant's execution)
- Part of
- Rue Saint-Nicaise Conspiracy
Chevalier, innocent of the machine infernale, was executed January 11, 1801; Saint-Régeant was guillotined April 20, 1801 at the Place de Grève.
On 21 Nivôse Year IX (January 11, 1801) Chevalier, who had not made the machine infernale, was executed by order of Napoleon. Saint-Régeant was executed on 30 Germinal (April 20, 1801) at the Place de Grève in Paris, where the attempted regicide Robert-François Damiens had been executed in 1757. One scholar mistakenly claimed Saint-Réjant escaped to the United States and became a priest; in fact, the man who escaped to the US was the conspirator Limoëlan.
Sources
- Plot of the rue Saint-Nicaise Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-14
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