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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.
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 France at the time.
— 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 ...
This included most notably the assassination of Jean-Paul Marat by Charlotte Corday in 1793. [1] Renault's interrogators also suggested that her assassination plot was a retaliation effort. Her lover had recently been sentenced to death via guillotine by the Committee of Public Safety. [1]
Drug cartels in Mexico frequently make videos of dead or captured gang members to intimidate or threaten rivals. Mexican police confirm grisly gang video showing bodies kicked, burned and shot ...
The official ISIS media wing released a sickening new execution video on Tuesday proving the group's immense brutality and hatred. The 7-minute-long video highlights 3 sets of executions .
The assassination of Marat by Charlotte Corday on 13 July 1793 Marat was in his bathtub on 13 July when a young woman from Caen , Charlotte Corday , appeared at his flat, claiming to have vital information on the activities of the escaped Girondins who had fled to Normandy . [ 53 ]