Patrice de Corsi
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Patrice de Corsi | |
|---|---|
| Senator of Corsica | |
| In office 22 April 1888 – 13 October 1888 | |
| Preceded by | Hippolyte Carnot |
| Succeeded by | François Morelli |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 15 September 1824 Talasani, Corsica, France |
| Died | 13 October 1888 (aged 64) |
| Occupation | Magistrate, politician |
Patrice de Corsi (15 September 1824 – 13 October 1888) was a French magistrate and politician.
Patrice de Corsi was born on 15 September 1824 in Talasani, Corsica.[1] He was among the Corsicans who were active in the Revolution of 1848.[2]
In 1860 Corsi was a young advocate. He was engaged in an electoral campaign in the canton of Pero-Casevecchio, where there had long been a feud between the Corsi and Renucci families. During the evening of 13 June 1860, after dark, Corsi and two friends encountered a group of about 15 supporters of Antoine Renucci. A stone was thrown and Corsi fell unconscious. He revived in time to see one of his friends, Filippi "Prete-Vecchio", being shot dead. At the subsequent trial the wrong man was convicted and served three years of a 20 year sentence before the error was discovered and the true culprit was assigned to the galleys, where he died.[3]
Corsi became a magistrate.[4] In 1869 he was one of the co-founders of the weekly La Revanche with Vincent-Marie Farinole, Louis Tommasi and Léonard Limperani.[5]