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Charlotte Corday being conducted to her execution, by Arturo Michelena (1889). The warden carries the red blouse worn by Corday and the painter Hauer stands at the right. Following her sentencing Corday asked the court if her portrait could be painted, purportedly to record her true self.
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.
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Madeleine Cemetery [1] (in French known as Cimetière de la Madeleine) is a former cemetery in the 8th arrondissement of Paris and was one of the four cemeteries (the others being Errancis Cemetery, Picpus Cemetery and the Cemetery of Saint Margaret) used to dispose of the corpses of guillotine victims during the French Revolution.
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A sick death row inmate set to die by lethal injection on Wednesday will be given a wedge-shaped pillow to help him breathe as he is executed.
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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 ]