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The Murderer of Warren Street
by Marc Mulholland
(Hutchinson, £16.99)
THIS book's title is deliberately ironic in capturing the last, and in many ways least consequential, action of the French protosocialist Emmanuel Barthelemy.
The circumstances surrounding Barthelemy’s alleged murder of two Englishmen in 1854 at an address in London's Warren Street are confused and contradictory and provide little guidance either as to his past exploits or his future intended action — the assassination of Napoleon III.
By this stage he was clearly someone that the British government thought expendable as it tried boost its relationship with France during the ill-fated Crimean War.
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