Corday d'Armont, Charlotte
Corday d'Armont, Charlotte (1768–93) French noblewoman, the murderess of
MARAT. After a lonely childhood in Normandy she began to attend the meetings of the
GIRONDINS, where she heard of Marat as a tyrant and conceived the idea of assassinating him. She arrived in Paris in 1793 and on 13 July murdered Marat in his bath. A plea of insanity was overruled and she was sentenced to death on the guillotine.
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Edmund Eyre's The Maid of Normandy; or, Charlotte Corday in Anglo-Irish docudrama.
Magazine article from: Comparative Drama; 6/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...de Marat, 1793), garners Charlotte Corday's assassination of Jean...little about dramas depicting Charlotte Corday and Marat since in the 1790s...dramatic allegory. In the case of Charlotte Corday, they reproduce the hagiography...
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FIRST ENCOUNTER: When Charlotte Corday met Jean-Paul Marat
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 7/29/1995; ; 524 words
; ...king's execution. To Charlotte Corday, in Caen, as to many...before had attended Charlotte's mother when she died in childbirth. And as Corday knew, no Jacobin in...tragedienne she saw herself, Charlotte Corday stood erect, pulled...
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 "South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)")
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Femme fatale Charlotte's our secret weapon to beat France.(News)
Newspaper article from: South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales); 2/25/2009; 700+ words
; ...Charlottes, zey can be les tough cookies. Our own Charlotte, Charlotte Corday, she stab a man to 'is death while'e sits...it, the French are broadminded. If they let Charlotte Corday into a bloke's bathroom they shouldn't object...
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THE BEST BRECHT PLAY BRECHT DIDN'T WRITE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 7/27/1990; ; 700+ words
; ...Marat on July 13, 1793, by Charlotte Corday, a zealot opposing him, is...performance by Rebecca De Mornay as Charlotte Corday. There's an intensity to...tragic as an inmate in pursuit of Charlotte Corday. There are wonderful performances...
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Freud & Feminism: Head Games; Leslie Dick's Fictional Forays Into the Life of the Mind
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 1/7/1998; ; 700+ words
; THE SKULL OF CHARLOTTE CORDAY And Other Stories By Leslie Dick...psychoanalysis, "The Skull of Charlotte Corday" will, at times, not only fail...the cranial study of the skull of Charlotte Corday, who assassinated the French revolutionary...
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Monterey furniture is California classic;
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 12/5/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...clear glass bottle he called "Charlotte Corday's hand holding a dagger...bottle collectors refer to it as Charlotte Corday's hand. Experts now believe...Experts call that bottle "Charlotte Corday holding a dagger." Corday...
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 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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'MARAT' OUT OF PLACE IN OUR TIME.(Entertainment)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 7/27/1990; 700+ words
; ...Marat/ Sade") is murdered in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday, a revolutionary zealot who was convinced Marat...roles are uneven. Rebecca DeMornay's inmate/Charlotte Corday lacks definition. DeMornay's best, most chilling...
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'Marat/Sade,' From Time Out of Mind
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 7/24/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...by the politically motivated Charlotte Corday (Katy Carkuff). The conceit...paranoiac, and the single- minded Corday suffers from sleeping sickness...own as a sexual predator cast as Corday's lover. And though she is meant...
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Musical of madness; Visualize 'Marat/Sade' anarchy and sadism.(SHOW)(THEATER)(Column)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 7/25/2008; 700+ words
; ...the heart while in the bath by Charlotte Corday (Katy Carkuff). Insanity, more...befalls actors, rocks the cast. Corday is a narcoleptic, Marat's receiving...sweetly drowsy Miss Carkuff as Corday, and Parker Dixon's antsy...
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'Marat/Sade' not for faint-hearted
Newspaper article from: The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL; 11/8/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...a young nun from Caen named Charlotte Corday. The notorious Marquis de Sade...just as Marat was stabbed by Charlotte Corday, just as the French Revolution...patient who's assigned to play Charlotte Corday (Allison Dutton) literally...
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Charlotte Corday
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Charlotte Corday (Marie Anne Charlotte Corday d'Armont) , 1768-93, assassin of Jean Paul Marat . Although of aristocratic background, she sympathized with the Girondists in the French Revolution and felt that Marat, in his persecution of...
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Corday, Charlotte
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Corday, Charlotte (1768–93), French political assassin. She became involved with the Girondists and in 1793 assassinated the revolutionary leader Jean Paul Marat in his bath; she was found guilty of treason and guillotined four days later.
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Corday d'Armont, Charlotte
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
Corday d'Armont, Charlotte (1768–93) French noblewoman, the murderess of MARAT . After a lonely childhood in Normandy she began to attend the...
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Marat/Sade
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...Richardson (Jean-Paul Marat ); Glenda Jackson (Charlotte Corday ); Clifford Rose (Coulmier ); Brenda Kempner...and that Marat was fatally stabbed in a bathtub by Charlotte Corday at the height of terror in the French Revolution...
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Jackson, Glenda
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...on-stage role) 1967 Marat/Sade (Brook) (as Charlotte Corday) 1968 Tell Me Lies (Brook); Negatives (Medak...Sauvageot) 1987 Beyond Therapy (Altman) (as Charlotte); Business as Usual (Barrett) (as Babs Flynn...
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