Luigi Lucheni
Italian anarchist and the assassin of Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1873–1910)
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FranceThe anarchist who killed Empress Elisabeth of Austria in 1898, stabbing her with a sharpened file on a Geneva quay. The murder was meant to make headlines — it did, and his name became shorthand for political violence dressed as ideology.
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Born Louis Lucheni on 22 April 1873, he grew up Italian, drifting and rootless. Somewhere along the way he latched onto anarchism — the fashionable radicalism of the dispossessed — and decided a spectacular act would give his life meaning. He sharpened a file, stalked the Empress in Geneva, and drove it into her chest. She walked on for a few minutes before collapsing. He was caught immediately, tried, and imprisoned. On 19 October 1910, he hanged himself in his cell, having spent twelve years as the man who killed a woman because she was famous.
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