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Identifier
Ball Collection. K 540 .R46 1878
Creation Date
1878
Description
“Charlotte Mariane d'Armans Corday,” in Remarkable Trials of All Countries, compiled by Thomas Dunphy and Thomas J. Cummins. New York: Ward & Peloubet, 1878.
Charlotte Corday lived in France during the French Revolution. Inspired by the ideas of the revolution, she supported the Girondin faction. She judged the opposing party, the Jacobins, as too radical and a danger to the revolution. She resolved to murder one of their leaders, Jean-Paul Marat. Corday went to Marat's home and was granted access. Marat was in the bathtub where he conducted most of his affairs due to a skin condition. Corday plunged a knife into his heart, killing him. She was immediately arrested and put on trial. The twenty-four-year-old was found guilty and executed by guillotine four days after Marat’s assassination.