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Léon Léauthier
Léon-Jules Léauthier (January 1874, in Manosque - assassinated on 22 October 1894 at the penal colony of the Salvation Islands), was shoemaker, activist, and Anarchism, anarchist terrorist in France. An anarchist from a young age, he is best known for 13 November 1893 stabbing, stabbing the Serbian diplomat Rista Georgevitch in the midst of the Ère des attentats (1892–1894), on 13 November 1893. This attack was not targeted; Léauthier chose him as a symbol of revenge against the entire bourgeoisie, which he identified in him. Taking place only six days after the Liceu bombing, Léauthier's action became one of the first acts of indiscriminate terrorism in history, making him one of the founders of modern terrorism. Léauthier then voluntarily surrendered to the police before being sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony. Deported to the Salvation Islands, he was killed by police forces as part of a plot orchestrated by the authorities, resulting in the Revolt of ...
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Le Matin (France)
''Le Matin'' (, ''The Morning'') was a French daily newspaper first published in February 26, 1884, and discontinued in 1944. History ''Le Matin'' was launched on the initiative of Chamberlain & Co., a group of American financiers and the American newspaper editor Samuel Selwyn Chamberlain, in 1883, on the model of the British daily ''The Morning News (British newspaper), The Morning News''. The direction of the project was entrusted to the French journalist Alfred Edwards (journalist), Alfred Edwards, who launched the first issue on 26 February 1884. His home was then situated in the 10th arrondissement of Paris, at 6 boulevard Poissonnière, and his offices at numbers 3 to 9 on the same street. A few months later, Edwards left ''Le Matin'' to found his own journal, ''Le Matin Français'', which soon surpassed the circulation of ''Le Matin''. Later Edwards bought ''Le Matin'' and merged the two papers. He modernized the resulting hybrid with the most modern techniques and tech ...
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