Fernand Labori
Fernand Gustave Gaston Labori | |
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| File:Petit journal 8 27 1899 Fernand Labori.jpg The assassination attempt on Fernand Labori on the front page of Le Petit Journal | |
| Born | 18 April 1860 Reims, France |
| Died | March 14, 1917 (aged 56) Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
| Spouse | Marguerite de Pachmann |
| Relatives | Prince Philip of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (son-in-law) |
Fernand-Gustave-Gaston Labori (April 18, 1860 – March 14, 1917) was a French attorney. He was born in Reims and educated at the Faculty of Law of Paris.[1] In his professional life he defended the accused in some of the most prominent political cases of his day. Among his noted clients was Alfred Dreyfus whose acquittal on the charge of treason he was unable to secure at his 1899 trial, but Dreyfus was eventually pardoned by the French President and rehabilitated at the end of the long Dreyfus Affair (1894–1906).
Legal career
[edit | edit source]Labori was elected second secrétaire de Conférence du barreau de Paris and he was the defence counsel for:
- Anarchist Auguste Vaillant, who threw a bomb into the French Chamber of Deputies, injuring 20 people,[2] and who was sentenced to death
- Émile Zola in 1898 in the Dreyfus trial
- Captain Alfred Dreyfus at his court martial in Rennes in 1899
- Thérèse Humbert in the case of the Crawford inheritance who pretended to be an heir of American millionaire Robert Crawford; the case sometimes was described as 'the swindle of the century'
- Henriette Caillaux in 1914 who was the wife of former Prime Minister of France Joseph Caillaux
His speeches were regarded as masterpieces of forensic eloquence.[citation needed]
Assassination attempt
[edit | edit source]During the Dreyfus trial, Labori was the victim of an assassination attempt which hospitalized him for a week. The attacker was never identified.[3]
Death
[edit | edit source]He is buried at the Montparnasse Cemetery.
References
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- ^ The Guillotine's Sure Work; Details of the Execution of Vaillant, the Anarchist", The New York Times, 1984-02-06.
- ^ The Alfred Dreyfus Collection: Drawing on History Le Petit Journal, August 27 1899[permanent dead link]
Bibliography
[edit | edit source]- Labori, ses notes manuscrites, sa vie. Editor V. Attinger. Author Marguerite Labori, 1947, Paris,
- Labori, pour Zola, pour Dreyfus, contre la terre entière, un avocat. Editor L. Audibert, Authors Thierry Lévy and Jean-Pierre Royer, Paris 2006, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
External links
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- Portrait du centre d'études du 19e siècle français - Université de Toronto
- Etat des Archives de Fernand Labori
- Liste biliographique des principales plaidoiries sur Criminocorpus - site du CNRS
- Portrait sur La vie rémoise
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