Charlotte Corday

File:Corday maison.JPG where Corday was born]]

Born in Saint-Saturnin-des-Ligneries, a hamlet in the commune of Écorches (Orne), in Normandy,{{Cite web |date=1768 |title=Document du baptême de Charlotte Corday |url=https://gaia.orne.fr/mdr/index.php/docnumViewer/calculHierarchieDocNum/373227/1057:358079:371711:373227/900/1440 |access-date=5 April 2022 |website=Archives et patrimoine culturel de l'Orne |page=36}} Corday was a member of a minor aristocratic family. Her father was Jacques François de Corday, Seigneur d'Armont, and her mother was Charlotte Marie Jacqueline Gaultier de Mesnival. Her parents were cousins,{{citation | place = FR | url = http://www.larousse.fr/encyclopedie/article/Charlotte_Corday/11022708 | language = fr | publisher = Larousse | title = Encyclopedie | contribution = Charlotte Corday | access-date = 8 June 2010 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110721002912/http://www.larousse.fr/encyclopedie/article/Charlotte_Corday/11022708 | archive-date = 21 July 2011 | url-status = dead }} and she was a fifth-generation descendant of the dramatist Pierre Corneille.

While a young girl, her older sister and her mother died. Her father, unable to cope with his grief over their deaths, sent Corday and her younger sister to the Abbaye aux Dames convent in Caen, where Corday had access to the abbey's library and first encountered the writings of Plutarch, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Voltaire.{{citation | last = Whitham | first = John Mills | title = Men and Women of the French Revolution | place = Freeport, NY | publisher=Books for Libraries Press | year = 1968}}{{rp |154–55}} After 1791, she lived in Caen with her aunt, Madame le Coustellier de Bretteville-Gouville. The two developed a close relationship, and Corday was the sole heir to her aunt's estate.{{rp |157}}

Corday's physical appearance is described on her passport as "five feet and one inch{{nbsp}}... hair and eyebrows auburn, eyes gray, forehead high, mouth medium size, chin dimpled, and an oval face".{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/b24878182|page=[https://archive.org/details/b24878182/page/352 352]|quote=charlotte corday passport.|title=Curious Bypaths of History: Being Medico-historical Studies and Observations|last=Cabanès|first=Augustin|date=1898|publisher=C. Carrington|language=en}}

File:Tony Robert-Fleury - Charlotte Corday à Caen en 1793.jpg]]

After the National Convention radicalised further and headed towards terror, Corday began to sympathise with the Girondins. She admired their speeches and grew fond of many of the Girondist groups whom she met while living in Caen. She respected the political principles of the Girondins and came to align herself with their thinking. She regarded them as a movement that would ultimately save France.

{{cite book|last=Cher|first=Marie|title=Charlotte Corday and Certain Men of the Revolutionary Torment|year=1929|publisher=D. Appleton and Company|location=New York|isbn=1-4366-8354-8|page=70}} The Girondins represented a more moderate approach to the revolution and they, like Corday, were sceptical about the direction the revolution was taking. They opposed the Montagnards, who advocated a more radical approach to the revolution, which included the extreme idea that the only way the revolution would survive invasion and civil war was through terrorising and executing those opposed to it.{{cite book|last=Andress|first=David|title=The Terror|url=https://archive.org/details/terror00andr|url-access=registration|year=2005|publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux|location=Great Britain|isbn=978-0-374-53073-0}}{{page number|date=June 2020}}

The influence of Girondin ideas on Corday is evident in her words at her trial: "I have killed one man to save a hundred thousand."{{Cite book |last=Clifford |first=John Herbert |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5X83AQAAMAAJ&q=charlotte+corday+%2522I+have+killed+one+man+to+save+a+hundred+thousand%2522&pg=PA3382 |title=The Standard History of the World |date=1907 |publisher=University society Incorporated |pages=3382 |language=en}} As the revolution progressed, the Girondins had become progressively more opposed to the radical, violent propositions of the Montagnards such as Marat and Maximilien Robespierre. Corday's notion that she was saving a hundred thousand lives echoes this Girondin sentiment as they attempted to slow the revolution and reverse the violence that had escalated since the September Massacres of 1792.{{cn|date=July 2021}}

Jean-Paul Marat was a member of the radical Jacobin faction that had a leading role during the Reign of Terror. As a journalist, he exerted power and influence through his newspaper, L'Ami du peuple ("The Friend of the People").Schama 2005, p. 445. Corday's decision to kill Marat was stimulated by her revulsion at the September Massacres, for which she held Marat responsible, and by her fear of an all-out civil war.{{rp |161}} She believed that Marat was threatening the republic and that his death would end violence throughout the country. She also believed that King Louis XVI should not have been executed.{{rp |160}}

File:Death of Marat by David.jpg by Jacques-Louis David (1793)]]

On 9 July 1793 Corday left her aunt, carrying a copy of Plutarch's Parallel Lives, and went to Paris where she took a room at the Hôtel de Providence.The Hotel was at 19 rue des Vieux Augustins, now rue d'Argout She bought a kitchen knife with a {{convert|5|in|cm|adj=on}} blade. During the next few days, she wrote her Adresse aux Français amis des lois et de la paix ("Address to the French, friends of Law and Peace") to explain her motives for assassinating Marat.Cobb, Richard (1988) The French Revolution. Voices From A Momentous Epoch. Guild Publishing. p. 192; {{ISBN|978-0671699253}}{{Cite web |last=Mark |first=Harrison W. |title=Assassination of Marat |url=https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2092/assassination-of-marat/ |access-date=2024-07-13 |website=World History Encyclopedia |language=en}}

File:Paul Baudry - Charlotte Corday - c 1860 - Nantes Museum of Art.jpg ({{circa|1860}})]]

Corday initially planned to assassinate Marat in front of the entire National Convention. She intended to make an example of him, but upon arriving in Paris she discovered that Marat no longer attended meetings because his health was deteriorating from a skin disorder (perhaps dermatitis herpetiformis). She was then forced to change her plan. She went to Marat's home before noon on 13 July, claiming to have knowledge of a planned Girondist uprising in Caen; she was turned away by Catherine Evrard, the sister of Marat's fiancée Simonne.Schama 2005, p. 735.

On her return that evening, Marat admitted her. At the time, he conducted most of his affairs from a bathtub because of his skin condition. Marat wrote down the names of the Girondins that she gave to him; she then pulled out the knife and plunged it into his chest. He called out: Aidez-moi, ma chère amie! ("Help me, my dear friend!"), and then died.Schama 2005, p. 736.

In response to Marat's dying shout, Evrard rushed into the room. She was joined by a distributor of Marat's newspaper, who seized Corday. Two neighbours (a military surgeon and a dentist) attempted to revive Marat. Republican officials arrived to interrogate Corday and to calm a hysterical crowd who appeared ready to lynch her.Schama 2005, p. 737.{{clear}}

Image:Corday-Gillray-color.jpeg, 1793]]

Corday sent the following farewell letter to her father which was intercepted and read during the trial, the letter helping to establish that Marat's murder was premeditated:

{{blockquote|Forgive me, my dear papa, for having disposed of my existence without your permission. I have avenged many innocent victims, I have prevented many other disasters. The people, one day disillusioned, will rejoice in being delivered from a tyrant. If I tried to persuade you that I was passing through England, it was because I hoped to keep it incognito, but I recognized the impossibility. I hope you will not be tormented. In any case, I believe that you would have defenders in Caen. I took Gustave Doulcet as a defender: such an attack allows no defense, it's for the form. Goodbye, my dear papa, please forget me, or rather rejoice in my fate, the cause is good. I kiss my sister whom I love with all my heart, as well as all my parents. Do not forget this verse by [Pierre] Corneille:

Crime is shame, not the scaffold!

It is tomorrow at eight o'clock that I am judged. This 16 July.Pardonnez-moi, mon cher papa, d'avoir disposé de mon existence sans votre permission. J'ai vengé bien d'innocentes victimes, j'ai prévenu bien d'autres désastres. Le peuple, un jour désabusé, se réjouira d’être délivré d'un tyran. Si j'ai cherché à vous persuader que je passais en Angleterre, c'est que j'espérais garder l'incognito, mais j'en ai reconnu l'impossibilité. J'espère que vous ne serez point tourmenté. En tout cas, je crois que vous auriez des défenseurs à Caen. J'ai pris pour défenseur Gustave Doulcet : un tel attentat ne permet nulle défense, c'est pour la forme. Adieu, mon cher papa, je vous prie de m'oublier, ou plutôt de vous réjouir de mon sort, la cause en est belle. J'embrasse ma sœur que j'aime de tout mon cœur, ainsi que tous mes parents. N'oubliez pas ce vers de Corneille:

Le Crime fait la honte, et non-pas l'échafaud !

C'est demain à huit heures, qu'on me juge. Ce 16 juillet.

}}

Corday underwent three separate cross-examinations by senior revolutionary judicial officials, including the president of the Revolutionary Tribunal and the chief prosecutor. She stressed that she was a republican and had been so even before the revolution, citing the values of ancient Rome as an ideal model.Cobb, Richard (1988). The French Revolution. Voices from a momentous epoch: 1789–1795, Guild Publishing. pp. 192–193. {{ISBN|978-0671699253}} The focus of the questioning was to establish whether she had been part of a wider Girondist conspiracy. Corday remained constant in insisting that "I alone conceived the plan and executed it." She referred to Marat as a "hoarder" and a "monster" who was respected only in Paris. She credited her fatal knifing of Marat with one blow not to practising in advance but to luck.Schama 2005, pp. 736–737.

Corday asked for Gustave le Doulcet, an old acquaintance, to defend her, but he did not receive the letter she wrote to him in time, so Claude François Chauveau-Lagarde was appointed instead to assist her during the trial.{{cite news |url=http://www.lefigaro.fr/histoire/2018/07/12/26001-20180712ARTFIG00194-13-juillet-1793-charlotte-corday-assassine-le-citoyen-marat-dans-sa-baignoire.php |title=13 juillet 1793: Charlotte Corday assassine le citoyen Marat dans sa baignoire |date=12 July 2018 |newspaper=Le Figaro |access-date=6 August 2018}}{{cite book|author=Du Bois, Louis |title=Charlotte de Corday: essai historique, offrant enfin des détails authentiques sur la personne et l'attentat de cette héroïne|publisher=Librairie Historique de la Révolution|date=1838|page=[https://archive.org/details/charlottedecord00boisgoog/page/n170 141]|url=https://archive.org/details/charlottedecord00boisgoog|quote=Charlotte Corday + lagarde.}} It is believed that Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville voluntarily delayed the letter; it is said that Corday thought that le Doulcet refused to defend her and sent to him a last letter of reproach just before going to the scaffold.{{cite EB1911|wstitle=Pontécoulant, Louis Gustave le Doulcet, Comte de |volume= 22 |short=x}}

File:Carlota Corday 1889 by Arturo Michelena.jpg (1889). The warden carries the red blouse worn by Corday and the painter Hauer stands at the right.]]

Following her sentencing Corday asked the court if her portrait could be painted, purportedly to record her true self. She made her request pleading, "Since I still have a few moments to live, might I hope, citizens, that you will allow me to have myself painted."{{Cite journal|title=Heroism in the Feminine: The Examples of Charlotte Corday and Madame Roland|last=Thomas|first=Chantal|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|year=1989 |journal=The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation |volume=30 |issue=2 |pages=67–82 |jstor=42705725}}{{rp|75}} Given permission, she selected as the artist a National Guard officer, Jean-Jacques Hauer, who had already begun sketching her from the gallery of the courtroom. Hauer's likeness was completed shortly before Corday was summoned to the tumbril, after she had viewed it and suggested a few changes.Schama 2005, pp. 740–741.

Since her execution, many authors have written describing Corday as a natural blonde, primarily ascribed from the portrait by Hauer. Possibly to give the idea that she had taken the time to make herself presentable and powder her hair before murdering Marat, Hauer painted Corday's hair a very light shade. Despite the fame of this portrait, many other paintings (done both in life and posthumously) show Corday in her true brunette form, and her passport describes her hair as "chestnut" (châtains), refuting the idea that Corday had fair hair.{{cite journal |last=Gelbart |first=Nina Rattner |title=The Blonding of Charlotte Corday |journal=Eighteenth-Century Studies |date=2004 |volume=38 |issue=1 |pages=201–221 |doi=10.1353/ecs.2004.0058 |jstor=30053636|s2cid=162354712 }}

On 17 July 1793, four days after Marat was killed, Corday was executed by the guillotine in the Place de Grève wearing the red overblouse denoting a condemned traitor who had assassinated a representative of the people. Standing alone in the tumbril amid a large and curious crowd she remained calm, although drenched by a sudden summer rainfall.Schama 2005, p. 741. Her body was buried in the Madeleine Cemetery.{{citation needed|date=July 2019}} Her skull was said to have been removed from her grave and passed from person to person in later years.{{cite web|url=https://www.geriwalton.com/tales-charlotte-cordays-head/ |title=Charlotte Corday's Head and Tales of What Happened |website=geriwalton.com |date=27 July 2018 |access-date=19 December 2020}}

After Corday's decapitation, a man named Legros lifted her head from the basket and slapped it on the cheek. Charles-Henri Sanson, the executioner, indignantly rejected published reports that Legros was one of his assistants. Sanson stated in his diary that Legros was in fact a carpenter who had been hired to make repairs to the guillotine.{{citation | title = La Révolution française vue par son bourreau : Journal de Charles-Henri Sanson | series = Documents | others = Monique Lebailly, preface | publisher=Le Cherche Midi | year = 2007 | page = 65 | isbn = 978-2-7491-0930-5 | language = fr}}; {{citation | publisher=Éditions de l'Instant | title = idem | year = 1988 | series = Griffures | place = Paris | isbn = 978-2-86929-128-7}} Witnesses report an expression of "unequivocal indignation" on her face when her cheek was slapped. The oft-repeated anecdote has served to suggest that victims of the guillotine may in fact retain consciousness for a short while, including by Albert Camus in his Reflections on the Guillotine ("Charlotte Corday's severed head blushed, it is said, under the executioner's slap").Koestler, Arthur and Camus, Albert (2002) Reflexions sur la peine Capitale. Calmann-Levy, p. 139. {{ISBN|978-2070418466}} This offence against a woman who was executed moments before was considered unacceptable, and Legros was imprisoned for three months because of his outburst.{{cite book |author-link=François Mignet |last=Mignet |first=François |title=History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 |year=1824}}{{page number|date=June 2020}}

Jacobin leaders had her body autopsied immediately after her death to see if she was a virgin. They believed there was a man sharing her bed and the assassination plans. To their dismay, a non-scientific virginity test persuaded them that she was a virgin.{{citation |last1=Corazzo |first1=Nina |first2=Catherine R. |last2=Montfort |contribution=Charlotte Corday: femme-homme |title=Literate Women and the French Revolution of 1789 |editor-first=Catherine R. |editor-last=Montfort |number=47 |place=Birmingham, AL |publisher=Summa Publications |year=1994 |page=45}}

The direct consequences of her crime were opposite to what she expected: the assassination did not stop the Jacobins or the Reign of Terror, which intensified after the murder. Also Marat became a martyr, a bust of him replaced a religious statue on the rue aux Ours, and several place-names were changed to honour Marat.Schama 2005, p. 745. Corday's action aided in restructuring the private versus public role of the woman in society at the time. The idea of women as second class or less was challenged, and Corday was considered a hero to those who were against the teachings of Marat. There have been suggestions that her act incited the banning of women's political clubs and the executions of female activists such as the Girondin Madame Roland.{{Cite book |last=Elizabeth |first=Kindleberger |title=Charlotte Corday in Text and Image: A Case Study in the French Revolution and Women's History |publisher=Duke University Press |year=1994 |pages=973}} Corday's act transformed the idea of what a woman was capable of, and to those who did not shun her for her act she was a heroine. André Chénier, for example, wrote a poem in honour of Corday. This highlighted the "masculinity" possessed by Corday during the revolution.{{rp|75–76}}

{{Verse translation

|head1=French (original)|lang1=fr

|La vertu seule est libre. Honneur de notre histoire,

Notre immortel opprobre y vit avec ta gloire,

Seule tu fus un homme, et vengeas les humains.

Et nous, eunuques vils, troupeau lâche sans âme,

Nous savons répéter quelques plaintes de femme,

Mais le fer pèserait à nos débiles mains.

|head2=English (translation)|lang2=en

|Virtue alone is free. Honor of our history,

Our immortal opprobrium lives there with your glory,

Only you were a man, and avenged the humans.

And we, vile eunuchs, a cowardly herd without a soul,

We know how to repeat a few complaints from a woman,

But the iron would be heavy in our feeble hands.

}}

Corday's killing of Marat was considered vile, an "arch-typically masculine statement", which reaction showed that whether or not one approved of what she did, it is clear that the murder of Marat changed the political role and position of women during the French Revolution.{{Cite book|title=Charlotte Corday in Text and Image: A Case Study in the French Revolution and Women's History|last=Kindleberger|first=Elizabeth|publisher=Duke University Press|year=1994|pages=969–999}} Corday was surprised by the reaction of revolutionary women, stating, "As I was truly calm I suffered from the shouts of a few women. But to save your country means not noticing what it costs."{{cite book |chapter=Charlotte Corday |author=M. Chéron de Villiers|title=Revue contemporaine|volume=79|year=1865|page=618 |location=Paris|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o7pIAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA618}} After Corday murdered Marat, many women distanced themselves from her because they believed that what she had done would spark a reaction against the developing feminist movement, which was already facing criticism. Many of these women were attached to Marat in that they were supporters of his revolutionary efforts and sympathised with him as citizens of France.{{cn|date=July 2021}}

Corday's likeness as well as the assassination have been reproduced by several artists, such as Jacques-Louis David's 1793 painting The Death of Marat; Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry's 1860 painting Charlotte Corday. Alphonse de Lamartine devoted to her a book of his Histoire des Girondins series (1847), in which he gave her this now-famous nickname: "l'ange de l'assassinat" (the angel of assassination).{{cite book |last=de Lamartine |first=Alphonse |author-link=Alphonse de Lamartine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j3anYE5z2_0C&pg=PA13 |title=Histoire de Charlotte Corday: un livre de l'Histoire des Girondins |publisher=Editions Champ Vallon |year=1995 |isbn=978-2876732025 |page=13 |language=fr |trans-title=History of Charlotte Corday: A book of the History of the Girondins |access-date=11 July 2018}}

Several streets in France bear her name, including Rue Charlotte Corday in Argentan, Verson, and Vimoutiers; Avenue Charlotte Corday in Caen; and Square Charlotte Corday in Émerainville, an eastern suburb of Paris.

• American dramatist Sarah Pogson Smith memorialised Corday in her 1807 verse drama The Female Enthusiast: A Tragedy in Five Acts.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iVSB-I0dCukC&pg=PT136 |title=Women's Early American Historical Narratives |publisher=Penguin Publishing Group |year=2003 |isbn=978-1440626593 |editor-last=Harris |editor-first=Sharon M. |page=136 |access-date=11 July 2018}}
• French dramatist François Ponsard wrote a play, Charlotte Corday, that was premièred at the Théâtre-Français in 1850.{{cite book |last=Ponsard |first=François |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f2UOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR7 |title=Charlotte Corday: A Tragedy |publisher=Trübner and Company |year=1867 |editor-last=Cassal |editor-first=C. |page=7 |access-date=11 July 2018}}
• In 1894, Kyrle Bellew penned a play in four acts detailing the assassination entitled Charlotte Corday, taking the role of Marat, while his acting partner Cora Urquhart Brown-Potter played as Charlotte Corday.{{cite book |last=Bellew |first=Kyrle |author-link=Kyrle Bellew |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yrAVAAAAYAAJ |title=Short Stories |publisher=the Shakespeare Press |year=1912 |page=138 |access-date=3 March 2019}}

• The 1919 German silent film Charlotte Corday stars Lya Mara in the title role.{{cn|date=July 2021}}
• Drieu La Rochelle wrote a play in three acts called Charlotte Corday in 1939.{{cite web |url=https://drieu.be/Charlotte%20Corday%20(1942).pdf |title=Charlotte Corday (1942) |language=fr |website=Archives Drieu La Rochelle |access-date=11 July 2018 |archive-date=13 September 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160913051653/https://drieu.be/Charlotte%20Corday%20(1942).pdf |url-status=dead }}
• In Peter Weiss's 1963 Marat/Sade, the assassination of Marat is presented as a play, written by the Marquis de Sade, to be performed for the public by inmates of the asylum at Charenton.
• Italian composer Lorenzo Ferrero composed an opera in three acts, Charlotte Corday, for the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution which was commemorated in 1989.{{cn|date=July 2021}}

File:Story Corday 1882.jpg|Painting of Charlotte Corday by Julian Story (1889)

File:L'Assassinat de Marat.jpg|The Assassination of Marat by Jean-Joseph Weerts (1880)

File:Joseph Roques - La mort de Marat - 1793.jpg|The Death of Marat by Guillaume-Joseph Roques (1793); a knife lies on the floor at lower left in the paintings by Roques and David

File:Jacques-louis david, la morte di marat, 1793, 05 lettera.jpg|Detail from The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David. Marat's dead hand grips a piece of bloody paper which reads, "July 13, 1793. Marie Anne Charlotte Corday to Citizen Marat. Suffice it to say that I am very unhappy to be entitled to your benevolence."

File:Charlotte corday.jpg|Charlotte Corday by François-Séraphin Delpech

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