Paul Gorguloff
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Paul Gorguloff, originally Pavel Timofeyevich Gorgulov, was a Russian émigré who shot and fatally wounded the French president Paul Doumer at a book fair at the Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild in Paris on
Police mugshot of Gorguloff, 1932
Gorguloff (standing) during his trial in Paris, 1932
La Santé Prison
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La Santé Prison is a prison operated by the French Prison Service of the Ministry of Justice located in the east of the Montparnasse district of the 14th arrondissement in southern Paris, France, at 4
Paul Gorguloff
…of Cassation, France's final appeal court, rejected a defence of insanity by Gorguloff's attornies. On 14 September 1932, Gorguloff was executed at La Santé Prison in Paris by guillotine. His last words were "Россия, моя страна!" ("Russia, my country!"). He was buried at Ivry Cemetery. The gun used in the assassination…
La Santé Prison (surrounded by high-rise buildings)
La Santé prison in the 19th century as photographed by Charles Marville
Plaque in memory of the 18 resistance fighters who were executed in the prison
Main entrance of the Prison at 42 rue de la Santé.