LC control no. | n 81086419 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Corday, Charlotte, 1768-1793 |
Variant(s) | Corday d'Armont, Marie Anne Charlotte de, 1768-1793 Corday, Marie, 1768-1793 D'Armont, Marie Anne Charlotte de Corday, 1768-1793 Armont, Marie Anne Charlotte de Corday d', 1768-1793 De Corday d'Armont, Marie Anne Charlotte, 1768-1793 De Corday, Charlotte, 1768-1793 Corday, 1768-1793 |
Associated country | France |
Profession or occupation | Girondists Assassins |
Found in | Wikipedia, Nov. 10, 2014 (Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont; born 27 July 1768 in Saint-Saturnin-des-Ligneries, EĢcorches (present day Orne), Normandy, France; died 17 July 1793; known to history as Charlotte Corday; a figure of the French Revolution. In 1793, she was executed under the guillotine for the assassination of Jacobin leader Jean-Paul Marat, who was in part responsible, through his role as a politician and journalist, for the more radical course the Revolution had taken. More specifically, he played a substantial role in the political purge of the Girondins, with whom Corday sympathized. His murder was memorialized in a celebrated painting by Jacques-Louis David which shows Marat after Corday had stabbed him to death in his bathtub) |