 Les quatre sergents de La Rochelle peu avant leur execution en 1822. Image by Unknown authorUnknown author, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed Public domain |
The Four SergeantsFour Sergeants of La Rochelle Four Sergeants of La Rochelle 1822 French soldiers' plot to overthrow the monarchy The Four Sergeants of La Rochelle (French: Quatre sergents de La Rochelle) were a group of French soldiers who plotted to overthrow the French monarchy of the Bourbon Restoration. Sergeants Bories, Pommier, Gobin and Raoulx were associates of the revolutionary Charbonnerie, a French secret society modelled after the Italian Carbonari. After being arrested for political conspiracy and membership of an outlawed organization, the four were guillotined in Paris on 21 September 1822.[1][2] The Four Sergeants hearing their sentence Conspirators After the 45th line regiment was formed in Chartres in 1816, Colonel Toustain replaced senior captains of the Empire with royalists. The non-commissioned… (Source: Wikipedia)
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