Earlier arrests of exclusif suspects
- When
- November 7–8, 1800
- Where
- Paris
- Part of
- Rue Saint-Nicaise Conspiracy
In November 1800 police arrested Metge and the chemist Chevalier, whose explosives experiments raised bomb suspicions later disproven for the rue Saint-Nicaise device.
On 16 and 17 Brumaire (November 7–8, 1800) the Paris police arrested the exclusif suspects, including the agitator Metge and a chemist named Chevalier. Metge had published a pamphlet, Le Turc et le militaire français, comparing Napoleon to Julius Cæsar and calling for thousands of Bruti to stab the tyrant Bonaparte. Chevalier had experimented with explosives in a hangar and was suspected of making a bomb to dispatch Napoleon; however, the machine infernale that exploded a month later in the rue Saint-Nicaise was not Chevalier's bomb.
Sources
- Plot of the rue Saint-Nicaise Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-14
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