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He is not heard by the other peers of France, who send Pierre Lecomte to the guillotine.
By Frederic Lewino and Gwendoline Dos Santos
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The drama began on April 16, 1846, when the chief forester of the Fontainebleau estate, Pierre Lecomte, fired two cartridges at King Louis-Philippe. It’s because he’s pissed off, the bugger: the king hasn’t replied to his letter in which he complains of not having the right to a pension. And how will he feed his children? With his meager savings, he does not have the means like Arthur to go to Belgium. Luckily, the bullets he fires at guess are lost without hitting the king or anyone else. It’s because he didn’t go through Syria to train in the handling of weapons… The forester is pursued, arrested and locked up. As a regicide, it is up to the Court of Peers to judge him.
The procedure requires that each member of this noble assembly take the floor…
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