Simon François Bernard
Simon François Bernard, 1858 engraving.
Simon François Bernard (1817–1862) was a French surgeon and republican revolutionary. He is best known for his involvement in the 1858 plot of Felice Orsini to assassinate Napoleon III.
Bernard was a Fourierist.[1] He was given a state trial in England, and the proceedings had a high profile. He was defended by Edwin John James[2] and Henry Hawkins;[3] and was acquitted, sensationally. He had opted for a completely English jury, and his defence council's rhetoric outweighed the summing-up of the judge, which tended towards a conviction.[1]
Those who spoke at his funeral were Adolphe Talandier, Gustave Jourdain, Jacob Holyoake and Félix Pyat, all associated with the Philadelphes.[4]
References
- Bensimon, Fabrice. "Bernard, Simon Francis". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/92469. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Margot C. Finn, After Chartism: Class and Nation in English Radical Politics 1848-1874 (2004), p. 183; Google Books.
- ↑ Metcalfe, Eric. "James, Edwin John". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/314599. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ↑ Glazebrook, P. R. "Hawkins, Henry". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/33770. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ↑ Milorad M. Drachkovitch,, The Revolutionary Internationals, 1864-1943 (1966), p. 44; Google Books.