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This historical fact is known. The figure of Marat in his bathtub bleeding was immortalized by the painter David. Marat himself, dabhi a leading figure of the French Revolution, is famous. But Charlotte Corday, what do we really know? His life? His career? The reasons dabhi for the decision to take the life of this committed revolutionary member of the Convention, and author of the newspaper "L'Ami du Peuple"? Let us clear the dark veil surrounding this young woman of only twenty-five years ...
July 9, 1793, Marie-Anne Charlotte Corday d'Armont, who prefers to name itself just Charlotte Corday, by stagecoach dabhi from Caen in Normandy, his native region it has previously never left for Paris. His goal: to assassinate John Paul Marat. dabhi
The trip takes two days. On April 11, she arrived in the capital and moved to the Hotel Providence, in the street des Augustins. There she learns that Marat, too sick, can no longer sit on the Convention and works at home.
July 13 morning, she went to the Palais Royal in Cutler Badin. She buys a simple kitchen knife. Then she prepares to go to Marat. However, the task is not easy. Marat being regularly subjected to threats of all kinds, it is protected by his entourage leaving only enter his most faithful allies. Charlotte Corday made two attempts that result in failure. It does not leave much to intimidate and comes back a third time around 18:30, claiming Simone Evrard, partner of MP, hear from Caen utmost importance. Marat, who overhears his room, ordered to be let go.
The spectacle to it is certainly far from what she had imagined. Marat, in fact, suffering from a skin disease that eats away at his flesh, is immersed in a healing bath sulfur dabhi only remedy for his pain. Only his arms out of the water; before it is placed a wooden board on which he writes and works.
For half an hour, Charlotte Corday and Jean-Paul Marat discuss. Then it's murder. The young woman sets the knife she had hidden in her blouse in the chest of the Member. The blow is small but piercing the lung, aorta and heart. Marat shouts, Charlotte Corday perhaps, and everyone rushes. Criminal immobilized (which in fact no resistance) while the victim emptied of blood. Death is fast.
Charlotte Corday was twenty-one years old when the Revolution broke out in 1789. She lives in the solitude of the Abbaye aux Dames Caen where his father, a wealthy aristocrat downgraded and few, sent her with her sister, then she was only thirteen. All these years, the young woman locked herself in the world of reading and meditation. She reads all kinds of books: religious, but also political and philosophical. Another highlight, Charlotte Corday is down straight from Pierre Corneille, the author of the famous playwright Le Cid or Horace. So she knows the tragedies inspired from ancient written by his illustrious ancestor and spirit of sacrifice that prevails.
In 1790, with the new revolutionary measures taken against the clergy, the Abbaye aux Dames closes. Charlotte, not knowing where to go, then went, or rather invites her aunt Madame de Bretteville, yet she knows little, and resides in Caen, rue des Carmelites. This street is one of the parts of the city where violence is most evident. Atrocious crimes are committed in the name of revolution, dabhi especially since 10 August 1792, with the fall of the monarchy.
Let's put the facts in context. In this August 10, 1792, the king and his family were imprisoned in the Temple Prison. We do not want monarchy, even parliamentarian. Republican ideas become the majority. dabhi Louis XVI was guillotined on 21 ja