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Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont (27 July 1768 – 17 July 1793), known simply as Charlotte Corday (French:), was a figure of the French Revolution who assassinated revolutionary and Jacobin leader Jean-Paul Marat on 13 July 1793.
Shelley also has a poem on Charlotte Corday who assassinated Jean-Paul Marat in 1793. François Ravaillac, the assassin of King Henry IV of France in 1610, is also a subject of the poem. Shelley, however, uses the real-life Margaret Nicholson only as a starting-off point to develop and to espouse a theory of revolution and emancipation from ...
It was not until 1868 that the appearance of St Paul's, a magazine edited by Anthony Trollope, gave Harry Dobson an opportunity and an audience; and during the next six years he contributed some of his favourite poems, including "Tu Quoque," "A Gentleman of the Old School," "A Dialogue from Plato," and "Une Marquise." Many of his poems in their ...
— Jean-Paul Marat (13 July 1793), to his wife, after being stabbed by Charlotte Corday "One man have I slain to save a hundred thousand." [6] [al] — Charlotte Corday (17 July 1793), prior to execution by guillotine "I shall look forward to a pleasant time." [41] — John Hancock, American merchant, statesman and Patriot (8 October 1793 ...
Charlotte Corday held Jean-Paul Marat responsible, while Madame Roland blamed Georges Danton. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] Danton was also accused by later French historians Adolphe Thiers , Alphonse de Lamartine , Jules Michelet , Louis Blanc and Edgar Quinet of doing nothing to stop them. [ 21 ]
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("A Letter of Introduction" and "Startling Dressiness of a Lift Attendant") "Comrade Bingo" — Bingo falls in love with Charlotte Corday Rowbotham, a member of a communist group called Heralds of the Red Dawn, and joins the group to win her affection. UK: Strand, May 1922; US: Cosmopolitan, May 1922 ("Comrade Bingo" and "Bingo Has a Bad Goodwood")
Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell Title page of the first edition, 1846 Authors Charlotte Brontë Emily Brontë Anne Brontë Language English Publication place United Kingdom Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell was a book of poetry published jointly by the three Brontë sisters, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne in 1846 (see 1846 in poetry), and their first work in print. To evade ...