Célestin Nat

Célestin Nat, (7 September 1870, in Toulouse – 31 October 1895, in the penal colony of Cayenne), was an individualist anarchist militant and terrorist. Orphaned, he grew up in poverty and vagrancy but eventually managed to secure a job in Marseille at the beginning of the Era of Attacks (1892-1894). However, he was soon dismissed from this job, which led him to visit the chief of staff of the city's mayor, who also refused to provide him with employment.

He then carried out the 1894 Marseille stabbing, two days before the execution of Émile Henry, where he went to the Quai des Augustins in Marseille and stabbed the first bourgeois he encountered. This attack, one of the first to align with the dynamics of indiscriminate terrorism, led to his arrest and trial. He was sentenced to twenty years of imprisonment in a penal colony, where he died the following year.