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The cruel end of Emmanuel Barthélemy –as a waxwork in the Chamber of Horrors

26 May 2018

9:00 AM

26 May 2018

9:00 AM

This is a biography that begins with a bang, swiftly followed by puddles of blood, shrieks of ‘Murder!’ and a chase through the foggy streets of Victorian London.

On 8 December 1854, a French émigré was walking through Fitzrovia, close to the heart of radical London, having recently left a pistol-shooting range in Westminster.

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