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An illustrator reconstructed the assassination of French President Sadi Carnot in 1894. Le Petit Journal, June 24, 1894.\u00a0Source: Wikipedia<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n On June 24, 1894, a young Italian anarchist,\u00a0Sante Geronimo Caserio, assassinated the\u00a0French President\u00a0Sadi Carnot\u00a0in\u00a0Lyon. Acting in retaliation for the execution of his anarchist comrades\u00a0by the French judiciary for their involvement in a series of bombings, Caserio stabbed Sadi Carnot in his open carriage, and the president died within hours. The murderer, a baker of humble origin, was just 20 years old and became an anarchist militant after coming into contact with libertarian ideas.<\/p>\n Date of original publication: 1894<\/p><\/div>\n In the article\u00a0“Social malaise… demonic agitation:” anarchism according to the criminology of the French physician Alexandre Lacassagne<\/a>\u00a0(HCSM v.30, 2023),\u00a0Bruno Corr\u00eaa de S\u00e1 e Benevides, Doctoral candidate at the Graduate Program in the History of Science and Health \/Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz, analyzes the way anarchism and its followers were understood in the book\u00a0L’assassinat du pr\u00e9sident Carnot<\/i><\/a>\u00a0written\u00a0by the French physician Alexandre Lacassagne.<\/p>\n The book was published a few months after Carnot’s death.\u00a0Lacassagne was called upon to perform the autopsy of Carnot’s body and a psychiatric examination of Caserio. The results of these two analyses were published in the mentioned book. Lacassagne observed the anarchist in the broader context of criminological debates pursued in the late nineteenth century.<\/p>\n Benevide’s article\u00a0sought\u00a0to show that the growth of radical actions, such as the assassination perpetrated by Sante Caserio and explored in Alexandre Lacassagne’s book, brought anarchism to the center of the criminological debates taking place in France, Italy, Germany, Spain, and other parts of Europe in the second half of the nineteenth century. Based on theories associating crime with madness, Lacassagne’s ideas in the book aimed to give multifactorial explanations for the phenomenon of anarchism (such as race, heredity, and social factors) while suggesting ways to curb the spread of libertarian ideas. Although Caserio was not declared insane, much of the analysis made by Lacassagne demonstrates an intention to fit the anarchist into the realm of mental “deviations.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Read the article!<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/71QbVo-L0gL._AC_UF350350_QL50_.jpg\")
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