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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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]
Alex Kingston. Alexandra Elizabeth Kingston (born 11 March 1963) [1] is an English actress. Active from the early 1980s, Kingston became noted for her television work in both Britain and the US in the 1990s, including her regular role as Dr. Elizabeth Corday in the NBC medical drama ER (1997–2004) and her title role in the ITV miniseries The ...
The New York Times crossword is a daily American-style crossword puzzle published in The New York Times, syndicated to more than 300 other newspapers and journals, and released online on the newspaper's website and mobile apps as part of The New York Times Games. [1][2][3][4][5] The puzzle is created by various freelance constructors and has ...