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Charlotte Corday   /ʃˈɑrlət kˈɔrdˌeɪ/   Listen
Charlotte Corday

noun
1.
French revolutionary heroine (a Girondist) who assassinated Marat (1768-1793).  Synonyms: Corday, Marie Anne Charlotte Corday d'Armont.





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"Charlotte Corday" Quotes from Famous Books



... are struck down, but in the country follows a ferment of Girondist risings. And on July 9, a fair Charlotte Corday is starting for Paris from Caen, with letters of introduction from Barbaroux to Dupernet, whom she sees, concerning family papers. On July 13, she drives to the residence of Marat, who is sick—a citoyenne who would do France a service; is admitted, ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol XII. - Modern History • Arthur Mee
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... a fanatical democrat whose one fixed idea was wholesale slaughter of the aristocracy; assassinated by Charlotte Corday (1743-93). ...
— Critical and Historical Essays Volume 1 • Thomas Babington Macaulay
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Words linked to "Charlotte Corday" :   subversive, subverter, revolutionary, revolutionist


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