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Luigi Lucheni (22 April 1873 – 19 October 1910) was an Italian anarchist and the assassin of Empress Elisabeth of Austria.
Empress Elisabeth was assassinated on 10 September 1898, stabbed with a file in the sixty-first year of her life. What drove the young Luigi Lucheni to such a deed?
Aug 31, 1986 · The relic was the head of the assassin, Luigi Lucheni, a self-styled Italian anarchist who, according to historians, lunged at the empress with a homemade dagger outside the Beau Rivage Hotel on...
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Luigi Lucheni (April 22, 1873 – October 19, 1910) was an Italian anarchist who assassinated the Austrian Empress Elisabeth of Bavaria (commonly referred to as Sisi) in 1898. Lucheni believed in propaganda by the deed, a philosophy advocating spreading beliefs through direct action.