Editing Sante Geronimo Caserio (section)

=== Exile and arrival in France ===
Caserio moved to Lugano, Switzerland, and began working as a baker for Bernadoli on 6 March 1893.{{Sfn|Berthoud|1969|p=39-45}} He was dismissed from this job on 24 June 1893 after participating in a bakers’ strike, which he likely organised. Swiss authorities also grew suspicious of him due to his irregular paperwork.{{Sfn|Berthoud|1969|p=39-45}} He then travelled to Lausanne, where he stayed with a companion named Maggi. In the second half of July 1893, he crossed the border into France.{{Sfn|Berthoud|1969|p=39-45}}{{Sfn|Bouhey|2009|p=291-295}}
[[File:Caserio Parisien 15 07 1894.png|thumb|351x351px|Depiction of Caserio in his jail cell, ''Le Petit Parisien : Supplément littéraire illustré'' (15 July 1894)[https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k830424s/f216]]]
Arriving in Lyon around 20 July 1893, Caserio initially lodged at 4 rue de Turenne, later moving to boarding houses on rue de la Vierge and rue Pierre Corneille.{{Sfn|Berthoud|1969|p=39-45}} During this time, he connected with fellow anarchists, including Tiburce Straggiotti (Crispi), who had also been expelled from Italy, as well as a man named Prévost (Bavis) and possibly Marius Debard.{{Sfn|Bouhey|2009|p=291-295}} Caserio worked as a plasterer for three employers until 9 September 1893. However, as he did not speak French and avoided Lyon’s anarchist circles, the French authorities remained unaware of his activities.{{Sfn|Berthoud|1969|p=39-45}}

On 20 September 1893, he left Lyon for Vienne, where he met several radical anarchists noted by police. Despite their notoriety, Caserio evaded surveillance.{{Sfn|Berthoud|1969|p=39-45}} He worked briefly as a baker there before departing for Sète in October 1893, later explaining this choice by claiming Sète’s bread resembled the Italian style he knew how to make.{{Sfn|Berthoud|1969|p=39-45}} In Sète, he was hired by a baker named Vialla,{{Sfn|Berthoud|1969|p=39-45}} who appreciated his diligence and the fact that he never drank alcohol (though Caserio smoked heavily).{{Sfn|Accoce|1998|p=137-138}} He befriended [[Ernest Saurel]], a local anarchist who translated his correspondence, introduced him to other militants, and provided anarchist publications like ''[[Émile Pouget|Le Père Peinard]]'' and ''[[Le Révolté]]''.{{Sfn|Berthoud|1969|p=39-45}}<ref>{{Citation |last=Vidal |first=Daniel |title=SAUREL Ernest, Elisée |date=2014-03-28 |work=Dictionnaire des anarchistes |url=https://maitron.fr/spip.php?article155758 |access-date=2025-04-08 |place=Paris |publisher=Maitron/Editions de l'Atelier |language=fr}}</ref> His activist background in Italy earned him respect among Sète’s anarchists.{{Sfn|Berthoud|1969|p=39-45}}

On a personal level, Caserio had read some works by [[Peter Kropotkin]] and other anarchist theorists, which he nearly memorized. He also admired [[Victor Hugo]] for his depictions of poverty but criticized him for failing to propose solutions.{{Sfn|Berthoud|1969|p=49-52}} His personality was intensely polarized, wholly dedicated to anarchism.{{Sfn|Berthoud|1969|p=49-52}} This single-mindedness was evident in his exclusive friendships with fellow anarchists.{{Sfn|Berthoud|1969|p=49-52}} His letters never mentioned romantic relationships.{{Sfn|Berthoud|1969|p=49-52}} He never references any woman also, presenting a very masculine perspective.{{Sfn|Berthoud|1969|p=49-52}} The sole non-anarchist topic he discussed was breadmaking, as seen in an ironic remark about the French production methods of the time:{{Sfn|Berthoud|1969|p=49-52}}
[[File:Punhal di caserio.jpg|thumb|300x300px|Caserio's dagger, featuring the inscriptions 'Toledo' (like the Spanish city) on one side of the blade and 'Recuerdo' (Remembrance) on the other.]]
{{Citation bloc|text=The bread here isn’t made like in Italy. You’d laugh if you saw us working! To prepare a 100-pound dough, they start with just one kilo of sourdough starter. They knead for five hours, adding flour and water bit by bit until the mass reaches its final weight.}}

In December 1893, Caserio developed severe skin lesions{{Sfn|Accoce|1998|p=138-142}} and was hospitalized in January 1894 after being diagnosed with a venereal disease.{{Sfn|Berthoud|1969|p=39-45}} During his stay, he promoted anarchist ideas to other patients, praising [[Ravachol]] and [[Auguste Vaillant]] as martyrs for the anarchist cause.{{Sfn|Berthoud|1969|p=39-45}} He received visits from Saurel, a Sète-based comrade named Parodi, and Straggiotti, who traveled from Lyon. Discharged in late February 1894, his life appears uneventful in surface from there until his assassination of Carnot months later.{{Sfn|Berthoud|1969|p=39-45}}