Don't have an account? Sign in via your Institution. You could not be signed in, please check and try again. Sign in with your library card Please enter your library card number. Subjects: Literature. All rights reserved. Sign in to annotate. She is largely remembered as the assassin of French Revolutionary leader, Jean-Paul Marat while he rested in his bath at home. She began going to political meetings there and became inspired by the ideas of the Revolution, and in particular the Girondin faction.
The Girondins were a more moderate faction that was in favor of a Constitutional government. They represented the educated provincial middle class of France lawyers, merchants etc. Corday felt that the Jacobins were too radical and she wanted to save the Revolution by eliminating their most popular leader, Jean-Paul Marat. With this in mind, she traveled to Paris and insisted on seeing Marat, promising either to divulge the names of traitors of the Revolution or to plead for the lives of her Girondin acquaintances historical records disagree on her ostensible reason for meeting with Marat.
Regardless of how she managed to gain access to Marat, she was allowed in while he was bathing he suffered from a skin condition and she plunged a knife directly into his heart causing his instant death.
She was arrested immediately and soon found guilty and guillotined. All accounts attest to a brave and dignified death. Initially her violent act scandalized Paris and some felt it reflected poorly on women revolutionaries. Many women distanced themselves from her for this reason. Her intention to weaken the power of the Jacobins was a failure. He died almost immediately, and Corday waited calmly for the police to come and arrest her. She was guillotined four days later. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us!
After a heated encounter, he arrests her and takes her to a nearby jail. Three days later, on the morning of July 13, she is found dead in Outraged and saddened after the acquittal of George Zimmerman, the Florida man who killed a Black teenager in , Oakland, California resident Alicia Garza posts a message on Facebook on July 13, Her post contains the phrase "Black lives matter," which soon becomes a Johnson of Texas.
The Battle of Kursk, involving some 6, tanks, two million men, and 5, aircraft, ends with the German offensive repulsed by the Soviets at heavy cost. Corday is portrayed here with hair cropped short in preparation for the guillotine, yet no fear is detectable on her countenance. She is depicted fresh-faced and rosy-cheeked, her cool grey eyes staring calmly from the oval frame. Corday had amazed her contemporaries with the composure and sang froid that she exhibited at her trial and on the way to the guillotine.
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