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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



... to their laws. Which of England's kings has shown more executive ability than Elizabeth, or which has been more conscientious and discreet than Annie and Victoria? Spain, too, had her Isabella, and France her Maid of Orleans, her Madame Roland, yes, and her Charlotte Corday. Austria and Hungary their Maria Theresa. Russia her Catharine; and even the jealous Jewish Theocracy was judged forty years by a woman. It is too late, by thirty centuries, to put in the plea of ...
— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I • Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage
... could not resist the curiosity to see the author of my recent misfortunes; but I regret the sight. I am haunted by the painful recurrence of that blanched, hopeless, beautiful face, which reminds me of a pathetic picture I saw abroad—Charlotte Corday peering through the bars of ...
— At the Mercy of Tiberius • August Evans Wilson


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