Charlotte corday biography

French assassin (–)

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Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont (27 July – 17 July ), known simply as Charlotte Corday (French:[kɔʁdɛ]), was a figure of the French Revolution who assassinated revolutionary and Jacobin leader Jean-Paul Marat on 13 July

Born in Normandy to a minor aristocratic family, Corday was a resident of Caen and a sympathiser of the Girondins, a moderate faction of French revolutionaries in opposition to the Jacobins. She held Jean-Paul Marat responsible for the September Massacres of and, believing that the Revolution was in jeopardy due to the more radical course the Jacobins had taken, she decided to assassinate Marat.^[2]

On 13 July , having travelled to Paris and obtained an audience with Marat, Corday fatally stabbed him with a knife while he was taking a medicinal bath. Marat's assassination was memorialised in the painting The Death of Marat by Jacques-Loui

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The Angel of Assassination: A beskrivning on Charlotte Corday

“I killed one man to bevara ,” Those were the words of Charlotte Corday as she awaited her sentence from the revolutionary tribunal. The crime: the murder of Jean-Paul Marat, an esteemed French reporter and politician. As she proudly stood before the masses, people wondered what drove the twenty-four-year-old to commit the murder.

The Beginnings 

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Charlotte Corday

Charlotte Corday (Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont, 27 July – 17 July ), was a figure of the French Revolution. In , she was sent to the guillotine for the assassination of Jacobin leader Jean-Paul Marat. She blamed Marat for the more extreme course the Revolution had taken. He played a large role in the takedown of the Girondins. Corday believed in the Girondins' cause. In , writer Alphonse de Lamartine gave Corday the nickname l'ange de l'assassinat (the Angel of Assassination).

Biography

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Charlotte Corday was born in Saint-Saturnin-des-Ligneries, Orne in Normandy, France in ^[1] Corday was from a family of minor aristocrats.

When Corday was a girl, her older sister and their mother, Charlotte Marie Jacqueline Gaultier de Mesnival died. Her father sent Corday and her younger sister to a convent in Caen. In the convent's library, Corday read the writing of Plutarch, Rousseau, and Voltaire^[2] After ,