Fernand Labori

Fernand-Gustave-Gaston Labori (April 18, 1860 – March 14, 1917) was a French attorney. He was born in Reims. In his professional life, he defended the accused in some of the most prominent political cases of his day. Among his noted clients was Alfred Dreyfus, who was eventually acquitted of treason. During the Dreyfus trial, Labori was the victim of an assassination attempt which hospitalized him for a week. The attacker was never identified.[1]

Fernand Gustave Gaston Labori
The assassination attempt on Fernand Labori on the front page of Le Petit Journal
Born(1860-04-18)18 April 1860
Reims, France
DiedMarch 14, 1917(1917-03-14) (aged 56)
Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris
NationalityFrench
OccupationLawyer

Labori was elected second secrétaire de Conférence du barreau de Paris, and he was the defence counsel for:

  • Anarchist Auguste Vaillant, who threw a bomb into the French Chamber of Deputies, injuring 20 people,[2] and who was sentenced to death
  • Émile Zola in 1898 in the Dreyfus trial
  • Captain Alfred Dreyfus, at his court martial in Rennes in 1899
  • Thérèse Humbert, in the case of the Crawford inheritance, who pretended to be an heir of American millionaire Robert Crawford; the case sometimes was described as 'the swindle of the century'
  • Henriette Caillaux in 1914, who was the wife of former Prime Minister of France Joseph Caillaux

His speeches were regarded as masterpieces of forensic eloquence.

Death

He is buried at the Montparnasse Cemetery.

References
  1. The Alfred Dreyfus Collection: Drawing on History Le Petit Journal, August 27 1899
  2. The Guillotine's Sure Work; Details of the Execution of Vaillant, the Anarchist", The New York Times, 1984-02-06.

Bibliography
  • Labori, ses notes manuscrites, sa vie. Editor V. Attinger. Author Marguerite Labori, 1947, Paris,
  • Labori, pour Zola, pour Dreyfus, contre la terre entière, un avocat. Editor L. Audibert, Authors Thierry Lévy and Jean-Pierre Royer, Paris 2006, ISBN 2-84749-083-3


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