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Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont (27 July 1768 – 17 July 1793), known simply as Charlotte Corday (French: [kɔʁdɛ]), was a figure of the French Revolution who assassinated revolutionary and Jacobin leader Jean-Paul Marat on 13 July 1793. Born in Normandy to a minor aristocratic family, Corday was a resident of Caen and a sympathiser ...
10+ participants sentenced to various prison terms. The Petit-Clamart attack, also referred to by its perpetrators as Operation Charlotte Corday after Charlotte Corday, was an assassination attempt organized by Lieutenant-Colonel Jean Bastien-Thiry with the Organisation armée secrète (OAS) that aimed to kill Charles de Gaulle, president of ...
The Death of Marat (French: La Mort de Marat or Marat Assassiné) is a 1793 painting by Jacques-Louis David depicting the artist's friend and murdered French revolutionary leader, Jean-Paul Marat. [1] One of the most famous images from the era of the French Revolution, it was painted when David was the leading French Neoclassical painter, a ...
Charlotte Corday assassinated Jean-Paul Marat in the French Revolution. Charlotte Corday may also refer to: Charlotte Corday (opera), a 1989 Italian opera; Charlotte Corday (1908 film), a 1908 French film; Charlotte Corday (1919 film), a 1919 German silent film; Operation Charlotte Corday, an assassination attempt against Charles de Gaulle in 1962
The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade (German: Die Verfolgung und Ermordung Jean Paul Marats dargestellt durch die Schauspielgruppe des Hospizes zu Charenton unter Anleitung des Herrn de Sade), usually shortened to Marat/Sade (pronounced), is a 1963 play by Peter Weiss.
Elizabeth Corday, M.B.B.S., F.R.C.S. (married name Greene) is a fictional character in the medical drama series ER, portrayed by British actress Alex Kingston. She first appeared at the beginning of the fourth season and became a lead character before departing towards the start of the eleventh season. Kingston returned to make two further ...
Jean-Jacques Hauer. Charlotte Corday being conducted to her execution. By Arturo Michelena, 1889. The painter Hauer stands at the right. Jean-Jacques Hauer or Johann Jakob Hauer (10 March 1751 – 3 June 1829) was a German painter active in France. Hauer is known to have painted the portrait of Charlotte Corday before her execution. [1]
Corday is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Charlotte Corday (1768–1793), assassin of Jean-Paul Marat; Betty Corday (1912–1987), American soap opera producer, wife of Ted Corday; Rita Corday (1920–1992), American actress; Ken Corday (b. 1960), American soap opera producer and composer, son of Betty and Ted Corday; Mara ...