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Corday was an ardent follower of the Girondists’ party, which was heavily influenced by the republican government of the United States.
While Antoinette was executed for her reputation, Corday was beheaded for committing the act of murder.
She had imagined herself stabbing Marat through the heart in front of the assembled senate, just as Brutus had immolated Caesar, his patron and friend, to restore liberty to the country (Loomis, 19 and 112).
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 Charlotte Corday - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A political cover-up was attempted prior to the trial; Chaveau-Lagarde, who previously had represented Marie-Antoinette, was appointed as defence for Charlotte Corday.
She pulled the knife from her scarf and plunged it into his chest, piercing his lung, aorta and left ventricle.
The president of the Tribunal ordered him to enter a plea of insanity on his client's behalf, in order to remove any notion of patriotic idealism from the act.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Corday   (668 words)

  
 Charlotte Corday Biography / Biography of Charlotte Corday World of Criminal Justice Biography
Corday was convicted and sent to the guillotine on July 17, 1793.
Corday, who full name was Marie Anne Charlotte Corday D'Armont, was born on July 27, 1768 at Saint-Saturnin, Normandy.
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A peasant woman, a soldier, a sans-culotte, and a bourgeois man are all angry and upset with Corday’s act.
While Antoinette’s iconography during the Revolution helped exacerbate it, the iconography of Charlotte Corday was used to show support for moderates or radicals.
As the political state of France changed, so did the representations of Charlotte Corday.
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 Charlotte, N.C.
Settled about 1750, Charlotte was incorporated as a city in 1768 and made the county seat in 1774.
Charlotte, city, United States - Charlotte, city (1990 pop.
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Corday was immediately apprehended, and was sentenced to death.
But on July 13, 1793, he was stabbed to death in his bath by Charlotte CORDAY, a young supporter of the Girondists.
Just getting in the first word Lisa ------------------------------ From: Kimbis@aol.com Date: Sat, 4 Mar 1995 00:21:35 -0500 Subject: Charlotte Corday CHARLOTTE CORDAY Charlotte Corday (1768 - 1793) Charlotte Corday was born at Saint-Saturnin, France on July 27, 1768, and was educated in the Roman Catholic convent in Caen.
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 Charlotte Corday And Adam Lux
As he spoke Charlotte flashed out the terrible knife and with all her strength she plunged it into his left side, where it pierced a lung and a portion of his heart.
Only then he smiled and thanked his judges courteously, and soon after went blithely to the guillotine like a bridegroom to his marriage feast.
Spirit courtship had been carried on silently all through that terrible cross-examination of Charlotte Corday.
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 Charlotte Corday --  Encyclopædia Britannica
E-text of the resolution passed in Charlotte Town, North Carolina, in 1775, declaring the independence of the state from Britain.
The British general Lord Cornwallis called the town of Charlotte, N.C., a “hornet's nest” after patriots there harassed his forces during the American Revolution.
Overview of the university located in Charlotte, North Carolina.
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9026256   (689 words)

  
 Untitled Document
Professor Cesare Lombroso, criminal anthropologist, insists (after a brief examination of the skull) that specific cranial anomalies are present, which confirm his theory of criminal types, or 'born criminals'.
The 'criminal type', or born criminal, is central to Lombroso theory of anthropology.
At the trial, on the 17th, an ex-pupil of David and captain of the National Guard, Hauer, made a drawing of Charlotte Corday.
http://www.unlv.edu/faculty/pkane/ART230/SelfPortraitPt2/theskull-4.html   (7107 words)

  
 Duchenier, by John Mason Neale
The general appearance of that hall we have already described: one of the judges seated at the upper table was, as Charlotte Corday had said, Marat himself.
But, before the examination commenced, Marat retired; and Charlotte Corday shortly after found means to leave the hall.
Marat, who had business which would require him to leave the tribunal early, was not president; and was now (probably weary of keeping one position) standing behind Couthon, who sat at the lowest end of the table on its right-hand side as you advanced towards it.
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 The Great French Revoution
The Girondist chroniclers, who all hated Marat, the chief organiser of May 31, have made out that Charlotte Corday was a republican.
Caen, as we have just seen, was the centre of the Federation of the United Departments, organised against the Montagnard Convention, and it is very probable that a plot had been prepared for July 14 or 15, to kill on that day "Danton, Robespierre, Marat and Company," and that Charlotte Corday knew of this.
Everything leads us to believe that Charlotte Corday d'Armont did not stand alone.
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_Archives/kropotkin/frenchrev/liii.html   (2296 words)

  
 Charlotte Corday
There she wrote a long text titled Speech to the French who are Friends of Law and Peace, which explained the act she was about to commit.In Paris, on July 13, 1793, Charlotte requested an appointment with Marat at his home at 30, rue des Cordeliers.
Later on the family moved to Caen, where Charlotte's mother passed away on April 8, 1782.
Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont was born on July 27, 1768, in the village of Les Champeaux, at the farm of Ronceray, a typically Norman farmhouse that her father had purchased in 1765.
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1 posted on 05/30/2002 7:37:54 AM PDT by Charlotte Corday
5 posted on 05/30/2002 10:10:10 AM PDT by Charlotte Corday
6 posted on 05/30/2002 10:16:03 AM PDT by Charlotte Corday
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 Charlotte Corday - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Charlotte Corday
Charlotte Center of the University of North Carolina
After the overthrow of the Girondins by the extreme left-wing Jacobins in May 1793, she stabbed to death the Jacobin leader, Jean Paul Marat, with a bread knife as he sat in his bath in July of the same year.
French Girondin Charlotte Corday (d'Armont), who is most famed for stabbing the Jacobin leader, Jean Paul Marat.
http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Charlotte+Corday   (134 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Charlotte Corday (French History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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Although of aristocratic background, she sympathized with the Girondists in the French Revolution and felt that Marat, in his persecution of the Girondists, was acting as the evil genius of France.
Charlotte Corday (Marie Anne Charlotte Corday d'Armont)[mArE´ An shArlOt´ kOrdA´ dArmON´] Pronunciation Key, 1768–93, assassin of Jean Paul Marat.
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 Recording [Charlotte Corday and the Lament of Louis XVI / Passades - Volume I] / CMC
Charlotte Corday and the Lament of Louis XVI
Recording [Charlotte Corday and the Lament of Louis XVI / Passades - Volume I] / CMC
Charlotte Corday and the Lament of Louis XVI / Passades - Volume I
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 Terrible poll on foxnews.com (Greta van Susteren page)
1 posted on 03/12/2004 4:52:28 PM PST by Charlotte Corday
5 posted on 03/12/2004 5:03:31 PM PST by Charlotte Corday
I ride them without any undue concern whatsoever.
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 Minors: Should Children Be Allowed To Vote? - Objectivism Online Forum
If “the unanimous consent of all citizens” is required, then children could not be denied the vote if a lone citizen favored their enfranchisement.
FIRST you know you have the right to limit the vote; THEN you begin to ask who qualifies.
Or, to put it another way, on what moral/political grounds do we limit the vote to certain members of the populace?
http://forum.objectivismonline.net/index.php?showtopic=1966&st=0&p=59299&#entry59299   (2444 words)

  
 Thomas Carlyle : The French Revolution : Chapter 3.4.I. Charlotte Corday
Jean-Paul Marat and Marie-Anne Charlotte Corday both, suddenly, are no more.
This was the History of Charlotte Corday; most definite, most complete; angelic-demonic: like a Star!
The public gazes astonished: the hasty limners sketch her features, Charlotte not disapproving; the men of law proceed with their formalities.
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 Abebooks Search Results - Corday
Includes Marie Antoinette, Catherine the Gret, Christina of Sweden, Lady Hamilton, Charlotte Corday et al.
The title refers to Charlotte de Corday, the subject of one of the three biographical studies in this book: she was the woman who stabbed Marat whilst he was in his bath.
This paperback is in fine condition throughout with no inscriptions.
http://www.abebooks.co.uk/search/sortby/3/kn/Corday   (1302 words)

  
 Objectivism's View Of Anarchism - Objectivism Online Forum
Furthermore, no one to my knowledge has successfully refuted Childs's point regarding the contradiction inherent in a government which presumes to defend individual rights yet at the same time initiates force to maintain its monopoly.
Stephen is right to suggest that you start with Rand's own words on the subject.
Charlotte is right to suggest you follow up by reading Childs' essay.
http://forum.objectivismonline.net/index.php?showtopic=1596   (3728 words)

  
 Degenerate - The Bastard in the Bathtub 8
The Montagnards, believing Charlotte Corday the ditzy precursor to a greater plot (but in reality, searching for a pretext and finding one) decreed the death sentence for the jailed leaders of the Girondins.
He gave his consent to show her in.
Charlotte Corday blushed and almost lost her nerve when she saw the state he was in.
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 ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Charlotte
Charlotte Amalie, capital of the Virgin Islands, United States.
The largest city in the state, Charlotte is an important manufacturing, commercial, transport, and...
Corday, Charlotte, full name Marie Anne Charlotte Corday d'Armont (1768-1793), French patriot and assassin of the French revolutionary Jean Paul...
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 VIMOUTIERS Heart of the Pays d'Auge in NORMANDY
Charlotte is admitted in the room, and here stabbed him to death while he was in his bath.
This transcription is the one which was given to Charlotte for her admittance in the Ladies's Abbey in Caen in 1782.
Window of the dungeon where Charlotte was jailed.
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 CORDAY - Online Information article about CORDAY
character of Charlotte Corday; but there was in it much that was noble and exalted.
She spoke to Marat of what was passing at Caen, and his only comment on her narrative was that all the men she had mentioned should be guillotined in a few days.
Cherbourg, was to have marched upon See also:
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 Paris - Beyond the Image : 177 Galerie de Valois, Le Palais Royal, 1er
During the Revolution, Charlotte Corday, a well brought up girl from Caen, decided that the Revolution had gone too far, as evidenced by the execution of King Louis XVI and the overthrow of the Girondins in the National Convention.
She felt that Jean-Paul Marat, a radical journalist and leader of the Paris Commune and Jacobin Party, was to blame.
http://www.egadd.org/parisbeyondtheimage/essay14.html   (138 words)

  
 Charlotte Corday
Corday, Charlotte (Marie Anne Charlotte Corday d'Armont), 1768–93, assassin of Jean Paul
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 Louis Saint-Just
Charlotte Corday stuck her tongue out at Marat.
Don't ask how we did it - just sit back and enjoy the fun as we talk to Jean-Paul Marat and his murderer, Charlotte Corday!
Charlotte, you were later guillotined for this act…how does that make you feel?"
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 THE CHAPEL PERILOUS: Décolleté ~ The Guillotine Gallery
The Last Toilet of Charlotte Corday, known in french as the 'Toilette du Condamne'
Madame Roland in Prison, where she wrote her memoirs
Charlotte Corday on her way to the Guillotine
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 Charlotte Corday
"Charlotte Corday (Thompson) was named by her historian grandmother after the courageous young woman who, at the height of the French Revolution, bowed to the guillotine for murdering Jean-Paul Marat in his bathtub.
Rather than try to live it down, she has spent twenty years creating all-or-nothing fictional heroines who live up to the name.
Charlotte grew up on the Gulf Coast but has lived in Medellin, Colombia and Stutgart, Germany.
http://www.archebooks.com/Authors/Corday/charlotte_corday.htm   (112 words)

  
 Ronceray
Charlotte Corday aurait passé la nuit du 8-9 juillet 1793
where Charlotte Corday allegedly slept the night of 8-9 July 1793
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 Silent Era : PSFL : Charlotte Corday (1914)
Silent Era : PSFL : Charlotte Corday (1914)
Silent Era Home Page > PSFL > Charlotte Corday (1914)
Silent Era Home Page > PSFL > Charlotte Corday (1914)
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 The Hutchinson Encyclopedia: Corday, Charlotte (1768-1793)@ HighBeam Research
The Hutchinson Encyclopedia: Corday, Charlotte (1768-1793)@ HighBeam Research
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 Discovering Dickens - A Community Reading Project
The death of Marat, who was among the most prominent of the Jacobin revolutionaries, would have been familiar to the Jacobin Tribunal before whom Doctor Manette’s letter is read.
The crisis of the episode between Marat and Charlotte Corday is narrated by Carlyle as follows:
Barbaroux, Pétion, writes he with bare shrunk arm, turning aside in the bath: Pétion, and Louvet, and – Charlotte has drawn her knife from the sheath; plunges it, with one sure stroke, into the writer’s heart….
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 collectingbees.com : lyrics and song info : charlotte corday
collectingbees.com : lyrics and song info : charlotte corday
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