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    The Plot of the rue Saint-Nicaise, also known as the Machine infernale plot, was an assassination attempt on the First Consul of France, Napoleon Bonaparte...
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  • They drove this “infernal machine” to Rue Saint-Nicaise (which no longer exists), near the intersection with rue Saint-Honoré, on Napoleon’s route to the...
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  • Syria, 1798–1801, the Coup of 18 Brumaire, and avoids the Plot of the rue Saint-Nicaise, 1800. In 1804, Napoleon oversees the controversial arrest and execution...
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    In December 1800, Joséphine was nearly killed in the Plot of the rue Saint-Nicaise, an attempt on Napoleon's life with a bomb planted in a parked cart...
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    Conspiration des poignards (Dagger plot) in October 1800 and the Plot of the Rue Saint-Nicaise two months later, gave him a pretext to arrest about 100 suspected...
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    his ambition by increasing his popularity. The royalist plot of the rue Saint-Nicaise on 24 December 1800 allowed him to make a clean sweep of the democratic...
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    which will select Jefferson as president. December 24 The Plot of the rue Saint-Nicaise fails to kill Napoleon Bonaparte. Pierre Coudrin and Henriette Aymer...
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    "conspirators" were easily ensnared and were executed when the Plot of the Rue Saint-Nicaise (December 1800) enabled Bonaparte to act with rigour. This far more...
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    ironically, the clearance effort was facilitated by the Plot of the rue Saint-Nicaise, a failed bomb attack on Napoleon on 24 December 1800, which damaged...
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  • provocateur, Harel, who had infiltrated the group. After Plot of the Rue Saint-Nicaise, the members of the "daggers conspiracy", presented as a Jacobin plot...
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