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 Jean-Paul MARAT's destiny
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
Vimoutiers. Descended from the dramatist
Pierre Corneille,
on her mother line, adept of the philosophs
Plutarch,
Tacitus and
Rousseau, sympathizer of the
moderates, or
Girondists, during the
French Revolution, she determined to kill
Jean-Paul Marat,
a supporter of the radical
Jacobins, whom she held responsible for the
Reign of
Terror. Charlotte went to Paris, she gained admittance
to Marat's house on the pretext of disclosing to him the names of Girondins in
the city of Caen. Marat suffering of skin problems, used to work in a bath.
Charlotte is admitted in the room, and here stabbed him to death while he was in his bath. Charlotte was captured by Marat's friends before she could escape, and condemned by the revolutionary
tribunal.
Her
life and places she has lived in Normandy
Enigmatic, fascinating indeed,
Charlotte Corday was and remains one of the most emblematic
figures of the
French Revolution :
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