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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.
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