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the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Corday, Charlotte
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A French heroine, born at St. Saturnin, of good birth, granddaughter of Corneille; well read in Voltaire and Plutarch; favoured the Revolution, but was shocked at the atrocities of the Jacobins; started from Caen for Paris as an avenging angel; sought out Marat, with difficulty got access to him, stabbed him to the heart as he sat "stewing in slipper-bath," and "his life with a groan gushed out, indignant, to the shades below"; when arrested, she "quietly surrendered"; when questioned as to her motive, she answered, "I killed one man to save a hundred thousand"; she was guillotined next day (1763-1793).
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Corday, Charlotte'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/c/corday-charlotte.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Corday, Charlotte'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/c/corday-charlotte.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
