Editing Louis Philippe I (section)

==Assassination attempts==
[[File:Attentat de Fieschi - 28.07.1835 - 2 (Eugène Lami).jpg|thumb|upright=2.6|right|''Review of the National Guard, attack of [[Giuseppe Mario Fieschi|Fieschi]], 28 July 1835'' by [[Eugène Lami]]]]

Louis Philippe survived seven assassination attempts. On 28 July 1835, Louis Philippe survived an assassination attempt by [[Giuseppe Mario Fieschi]] and two other conspirators in [[Paris]]. During the king's annual review of the Paris National Guard commemorating the revolution, Louis Philippe was passing along the [[Boulevard du Temple]], which connected [[Place de la République]] to the [[Bastille]], accompanied by three of his sons, [[Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans]], [[Prince Louis, Duke of Nemours]], and [[François d'Orléans, Prince of Joinville]], and numerous staff.

Fieschi, a Corsican ex-soldier, attacked the procession with a weapon he built himself, a [[volley gun]] that later became known as the [[Infernal machine (weapon)|''Machine infernale'']]. This consisted of 25 gun barrels fastened to a wooden frame that could be fired simultaneously.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Bouveiron |first1=A. |title=An historical and biographical sketch of Fieschi |last2=Fieschi |first2=Giuseppe Marco |date=1835 |publisher=Sold at the office of the editor |location=London |page=[https://archive.org/details/anhistoricaland00fiesgoog/page/n18 16] |oclc=1873853 |ol=19801431W |author-link2=Giuseppe Marco Fieschi}}</ref> The device was fired from the third level of n° 50 Boulevard du Temple (a [[commemorative plaque]] has since been engraved there), which had been rented by Fieschi. A ball only grazed the King's forehead. Eighteen people were killed, including Lieutenant Colonel {{Ill|Joseph Rieussec|fr}} of the 8th Legion together with eight other officers, [[Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier|Marshal Mortier, duc de Trévise]], and Colonel Raffet, General Girard, Captain Villate, General La Chasse de Vérigny, a woman, a 14-year-old girl and two men. A further 22 people were injured.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Harsin |first=Jill |title=Barricades: The War of the Streets in Revolutionary Paris, 1830–1848 |date=2002 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |isbn=978-0-3122-9479-3 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=TcMfGnKKRu0C&pg=PA150 150]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Bredow |first1=Gabriel G. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EQcBAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA78 |title=Chronik des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts |last2=Venturini |first2=Carl |year=1837}}</ref> The King and the princes escaped essentially unharmed. [[Horace Vernet]], the King's painter, was ordered to make a drawing of the event.<ref>Bouveiron & Fieschi, 1835; p. [https://archive.org/details/anhistoricaland00fiesgoog/page/n34 32]</ref>

Several of the gun barrels of Fieschi's weapon burst when it was fired; he was badly injured and was quickly captured. He was executed by [[guillotine]] together with his two co-conspirators the following year.