Charlotte Corday
Figure of the French Revolution (1768-1793) · France · Historical Figures · Died at 24
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Something wrong?She walked into a man's bathroom and killed him with a kitchen knife, believing one death could save the French Revolution from eating itself. Four days later, the same revolution guillotined her.
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Caen hôtel Malherbe bas-relief Corday
Cayenne place des palmistes - colonne de la république buste 1889
Charlotte Corday arrivant chez Marat présente sa lettre d'introduction à Simonne Evrard. Paris Musées 20230828234423
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Charlotte Corday d'Armans en prison écrivant une lettre à son père, 16 juillet 1793. Révolution française. G.28820(1).jpg?width=1200)
Charlotte Corday d'Armans en prison écrivant une lettre à son père, 16 juillet 1793. Révolution française. G.28820(2)About this person
Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont was born 27 July 1768 into a family that would fracture along with France itself. A Girondin sympathiser, she watched the moderate revolutionaries lose ground to the Jacobins and held Jean-Paul Marat responsible for the September Massacres of 1792. She travelled to Paris, secured an audience, and on 13 July 1793 stabbed Marat to death while he sat in a medicinal bath. Jacques-Louis David immortalised the scene in paint; the Revolutionary Tribunal immortalised her sentence four days later. On 17 July she was guillotined at the Place de Grève, and in 1847 Alphonse de Lamartine gave her the name that stuck: l'ange de l'assassinat.
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