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Events on Wednesday 24 December 1800 1
1800Plot of the Rue Saint-NicaiseRoyalist bomb plot fails to kill NapoleonRoyalist conspirators detonated a bomb in a parked cart along Napoleon's route to the Paris Opera, missing him but killing several bystanders and damaging nearby buildings. Napoleon used the attack as a pretext to deport dozens of Jacobin opponents, even though the plot had been royalist in origin. It was one of several assassination attempts he survived as First Consul.