Fernand Labori
| Fernand Gustave Gaston Labori | |
|---|---|
 The assassination attempt on Fernand Labori on the front page of Le Petit Journal | |
| Born |
18 April 1860 Rheims, France |
| Died |
March 14, 1917 (aged 56) Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris |
| Residence | Paris |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
Fernand-Gustave-Gaston Labori (April 18, 1860 – March 14, 1917) was a French attorney. He was born in Rheims. In his professional life, he defended the accused in some of the most prominent political cases in of his day. Among his noted clients was Alfred Dreyfus, who was eventually acquitted of treason. During the Dreyfus trial he was the victim of an assassination attempt which hospitalised him for a week. The attacker was never identified.[1]
Legal career
Labori was the defence counsel for
- the anarchist Auguste Vaillant who threw a bomb into the French Chamber of Deputies injuring twenty people.[2] He was sentenced to death.
- Émile Zola in 1898 in the Dreyfus trial.
- Captain Alfred Dreyfus at the court martial in Rennes in 1899.
- Thérèse Humbert, in the case of the Crawford inheritance she pretended to be an heir of American millionaire Robert Crawford. It was sometimes described as 'the swindle of the century'.
- Henriette Caillaux, wife of Caillaux in 1914.
His speeches were regarded as masterpieces of forensic eloquence.
Death
He is buried at the Montparnasse Cemetery.
References
Bibliography
- Labori, ses notes manuscrites, sa vie. Editor V. Attinger. Author Marguerite Labori, 1947, Paris,
- Labori, pour Zola, pour Dreyfus, contre la terre entière, un avocat. Editor L. Audibert, Authors Thierry Lévy and Jean-Pierre Royer, Paris 2006, isbn=2-84749-083-3
External links
- Fernand Labori at Find a Grave
- Portrait du centre d'études du 19e siècle français - Université de Toronto
- Etat des Archives de Fernand Labori
- Liste biliographique des principales plaidoiries sur Criminocorpus - site du CNRS
- Portrait sur La vie rémoise
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