![]() ![]() The Société Générale promised a reward of 100,000 francs for information that would lead to arrests. Banks began to prepare for forthcoming robberies and many cashiers armed themselves. Even politicians became concerned, increasing police funding by 800,000 francs. ![]() Sûreté Chief Xavier Guichard took the matter personally. They drove into Chantilly north of Paris where they robbed the local branch of Société Générale Bank – fatally shooting two bank cashiers and severely wounding a bookkeeper. On March 25, 1912, the gang stole a de Dion-Bouton automobile in the Forest of Sénart south of Paris by shooting the driver through the heart. They shot a collection clerk in the neck and lung (yet he survived) and snatched his cash bags. The first robbery by Bonnot's Gang was on Decemat the AB Branch of Société Générale Bank, located at 148 rue Ordener in the 18th Arrondissement of Paris. ![]() By tracing the slowly merging destinies of the. Bell, author of Shadows of Revolution: Reflections on France, Past and Present 'Once again, John Merriman has written a gripping tale about fin-de-sicle Paris. Illustration of the robbery of Société Générale Bank in Chantilly on March 25, 1912 Ballad of the Anarchist Bandits is a beautifully told story, by turns comic, tragic, hopeful, despairing, and intensely human.'-David A. ![]()
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