Café Terminus Bombing

Date: February 12, 1894 • Location: Clichy, France

Ère des attentats: In one of the first acts of modern terrorism, Émile Henry threw a bomb into Café Terminus in Paris, France, killing one person and injuring 17 more.

The Ère des attentats, or the French anarchist campaign of attacks from 1892 to 1894, was a period in the history of France and the broader history of propaganda of the deed, marked by a significant wave of political violence, both from the French authorities and anarchist terrorists. Its chronological boundaries extend from the Saint-Germain bombing to the massacre of the anarchist convicts. During this period, the French press largely shaped political discourse and public opinion, presenting these acts as interconnected events forming a progressive logic rather than isolated incidents.