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Joseph Fieschi's Death Mask, Norwich Castle Museum

Corsican assassin Joseph Fieschi's death mask shows the mutilations he suffered trying to kill King Louis Philippe of France in 1835 with a contraption of 25 rifles bolted to a metal frame and fired simultaneoulsy. The King escaped and Fieschi and two accomplices were guillotined.

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Uploaded on January 8, 2012
Taken on August 18, 2011