Giuseppe Fieschi was a Corsican conspirator who having been convicted of theft and fraud in his native country came to Paris where he worked for some time as a secret agent for the police. He was persuaded by the republican movements to foment a plot against the monarchie de Juillet. On 28 July 1835, as Louis-Philippe and his retinue were on their way to the Bastille for the celebrations of the 1830 revolution, Fieschi set off a bomb. The bomb missed its target (the Royal family), but killed nineteen people in the crowd, including officers of the French national guard. Following this assassination attempt, Fieschi and his accomplices (Pepin and Morey) were sentenced to death, and executed in 1836