Merriman, John books

The Dynamite Club: How a Bombing in Fin-de-Siecle Paris Ignited the Age of Modern Terror

His father, Sixte-Casse Henry (always called Fortuné), the son of a furrier, was born in Nîmes in 1821. When he was about nine, his teacher, a priest, accused him of stealing a loaf of bread, calling him a "little thief." The boy grabbed the loaf of bread back and smacked the priest in the face w...