Une ténébreuse affaire. L’assassinat de deux Français à Filattiera (1796)

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Supervisors

Lecuppre, Gilles

Faculty

Faculté de philosophie, arts et lettres

Degree label

Master [120] en histoire, à finalité spécialisée: communication de l'histoire

Abstract

enThis thesis is dedicated to the study of a murder that took place near Filattiera, Tuscany, in 1796. The events took place at the start of the first “Italian campaign” by Napoleon Bonaparte. Most of the original sources suggest that the murder was instigated by Tommaso Malaspina, Marquis of Villafranca in Lunigiana. The aim of this dissertation is to understand the potential reasons (political or otherwise) for this murder, and to try to ascertain whether Marquis Tommaso Malaspina could have committed it, or whether he was innocent as he claimed. In this dissertation, we present information about the territory involved, the criminals, the potential instigators, the victims as well as the relations between France, Tuscany and Austria. This dissertation is also the fruit of a major international investigation that took us a virtual journey in the Belgian archives sites to Italian archives sites and through French archives sites. Most answers to our hypotheses are often partial.