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nounFrench revolutionary heroine (a Girondist) who assassinated Marat (1768-1793. ).synonyms: Corday, Marie Anne Charlotte Corday d'Armont

nounFrench revolutionary heroine (a Girondist) who assassinated Marat (1768-1793. ).synonyms: Charlotte Corday, Marie Anne Charlotte Corday d'Armont

... 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 the Girondists, was acting as the evil genius of France. She resolved to emulate the action of Brutus and destroy the "tyrant." Leaving her native ...

... full name, C. Corday D’Armont). Born July 27, 1768, in St. Saturnin; died July 17, 1793, in Paris. Assassin of J.-P. Marat. From a gentry family of Normandy.Corday fell under the influence of the Girondists, who had fled Paris and in June 1793 had organized a counterrevolutionary center in the city of Caen aimed at liquidating the Jacobin ...