Lynching of Bassville in Rome
- When
- 13 January 1793
- Where
- Rome
On 13 January 1793 Bassville, riding with his family and Charles de la Flotte, was killed by a mob in Rome after a coach drive to the Via del Corso.
On 13 January 1793 Bassville, together with his wife, his young son, and the French naval officer Charles de la Flotte, drove by coach to the Via del Corso in Rome, where he was killed by a mob. Pius VI sent his personal physician to attend the dying Bassville, but the Convention in Paris magnified the affair, calling it a deliberate murder of the representative of the Republic carried out on the pope's orders.
Sources
- Nicolas Jean Hugou de Basseville Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-02
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