Martial Bourdin

Standard Name: Bourdin, Martial

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politics L. S. Bevington
LSB 's fellow anarchist David Nicoll argued in The Greenwich Mystery: Letters from the Dead, on the basis of a letter from LSB , that Martial Bourdin , the Greenwich Observatory bomber, had been...
politics L. S. Bevington
In February 15, 1894, French anarchist Martial Bourdin died after he apparently tried to blow up the Royal Observatory in Greenwich Park. LSB likely had insider knowledge of this incident (which formed the basis...
Textual Production L. S. Bevington
Six months after the apparent attempt by French anarchist Martial Bourdin to blow up the GreenwichObservatory , LSB wrote to former Commonweal editor David Nicoll her view that the incident was a police sting...

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15 February 1894: French anarchist Martial Bourdin was fatally...

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15 February 1894

French anarchist Martial Bourdin was fatally injured in an apparent attempt to destroy the Royal Observatory in Greenwich Park using a home-made bomb.
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