3-028-163 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Trial of Prince Pierre Bonaparte at Tours, 1870. 'The double charge against the prisoner [first cousin of the Emperor Napoleon III] was the manslaughter of the young man Ivan Salmon, alias Victor Noir, and the attempt to kill his companion, Ulric de Fonvielle, when they called on the Prince in his own house, at Auteuil, Paris, on Jan. 10, with a challenge from M. Paschal Grousset...Upon a raised platform...was the table for M. Glandaz and his four colleagues, Judges of the High Court. Each wore a scarlet robe...On the right hand of the President were the desks of the Procureur-General...and his two assistant lawyers...On the left hand of the Judges was the clerk of the court; and next him was the prisoners' dock, where sat Prince Pierre Bonaparte, with an officer of gendarmes...below him were...his counsel, Maitre Leroux and others... Maitres Floquet and Laurier, counsel for the family of the deceased Victor Noir and for M. Ulric de Fonvielle, were accommodated with separate tables...the mother, brother, and sister-in-law of the deceased...wore deep mourning...there were about forty newspaper reporters...The jury...returned a verdict of "Not guilty." M. Laurier demanded £4000 damages...Prince Pierre Bonaparte was immediately released. From "Illustrated London News", 1870.