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Marie-Anne-CHARLOTTE de CORDAY d'Armont
Jean-Paul MARAT's destiny
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In Lower Normandy ...
amid orchards and pastoral lands ... To fly over this area in the XVIIIth century, from the map of Cassini :
click the aeroplane |
La "Ferme des Bois",Ferme du Ronceray
in Les Ligneries Charlotte's birthplace where she lived
until she was
13-years-old. Le Ronceray joined to Les Champeaux and the Church of Saint-Saturnin-des-Ligneries to Ecorches.
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Church of Saint Saturnin des Ligneries
Charlotte Corday was baptized in the tiny church of Saint-Saturnin-des-Ligneries on July 28, 1768. |
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Manoir de Glatigny
The family would often stay in Le Manoir de Glatigny, near Saint Gervais des Sablons, less than 1 km from the Farm, and the eldest line of the Cordays's property ...
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Château du Renouard
... and le Château du Renouard, near Le Mesnil-Imbert, Charlotte's paternal grandfather's property. |
L'abbaye aux Dames
After her mother's decease, from 1782 to 1791 Charlotte is educated in the Ladies' Abbey, a convent in Caen, founded in 1060 by Matilda of Flander, William of Normandy/the Bastard/the Conqueror's spouse. |
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Rue Saint Jean à Caen
But convents are closed ... the Revolution, church properties placed "at the disposal of the Nation", ... and Charlotte retires at an old aunt's, Madame Coutellier de Bretteville, with whom she shares a secluded life.
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... in Caen ...
Her imagination stirs and her readings inspire her with republican ideologies. She meets the Girondins, sheltered in the city and thenceforth conceives the idea of helping them.
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Inn in Lisieux
In July 1793, Charlotte is determined. In Lisieux, the inn where she stayed on the 9th, on her way to Paris where she will stab Marat. |
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Stabbing Marat
by Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry, Museum of Fine Arts in Nantes, France |
Death of Marat
On July 13, 1793 "Death of Marat", 18 rue des Cordeliers in Paris. Painted by Jacques-Louis David Museum of Versailles
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Arrest of Charlotte
She is conveyed to the Prison de l'Abbaye, close to Marat's house. In her clothes, a "Letter to the French patriots, friends of laws and peace ... I showed you the path ... " |
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Charlotte's last adieu to her father
Letter written in the Prison de l'Abbaye |
La Conciergerie
On July 16, Charlotte is transferred to the prison of La Conciergerie in Paris, In the yard, window of the dungeon where Charlotte was jailed.
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"Charlotte Corday en prison"
by Jacques-LouisMuller |
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"The Last Toilet of Charlotte Corday"
Steel engraving - EM.Ward RA PinX - L. Stocks RA Sculpt. D. Appleton & C° New York |
"The last hours of Charlotte"
Pastel by Hauer, Lambinet museum in Versailles Designed on Charlotte's request, this portrait was started in the courtroom, then completed in her jail within her last two hours.
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On the 17th of July, 1793
circa 7pm, Charlotte is guillotined ... she was less than 25 years of age
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Charlotte's Baptism record :
"Ce vingt-huit de juillet
mil sept cent soixante-huit, par nous soussigné curé, a été baptisée
Marie-Anne-Charlotte née d'hier du légitime mariage de messire Jacques-François
de Corday, écuyer, seigneur d'Armont et de noble dame Marie-Jacqueline de
Gautier, son épouse, de cette paroisse; le parrain, messire Jean-Baptiste-Alexis
de Gautier, écuyer, seigneur de Mesnival; la marraine, noble dame
Françoise-Marie-Anne Levailant de Corday; le père présent.
The above transcription is the one which was given to Charlotte for her admittance in the Ladies's Abbey in Caen in 1782. Her parents were Jacques-François de Corday and Marie-Jacqueline de Gautier, Her godfather was Baptiste-Alexis de Gautier, her godmother was Françoise-Marie-Anne Levailant de Corday.
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Charlotte Corday (July 27th,1768/July
17th,1793), aristocrat with no wealth, French patriot, was born in Les Champeaux, a
hamlet about five kilometers from
