This assassination attempt took place on 24 December 1800 at 8-30pm. The carriage taking Bonaparte to the Opéra to hear the first performance of Haydn's Creation had passed twenty minutes earlier. See the article by Jean Tulard “Les attentats contre Napoléon” in the Revue du Souvenir napoléonien, n°391.
Artist’s impression of the explosion of the rue Saint-Niçaise bomb in Paris
