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British singer-songwriter Al Stewart included a song co-written by Tori Amos about Corday on his album Famous Last Words (1993). [47] Charlotte appears briefly but significantly, in Caen, in A Far Better Rest (2010), by Susanne Alleyn, a reimagining of A Tale of Two Cities. [48]
— 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 ...
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Created in the months after Marat's death, the painting shows Marat lying dead in his bath after his assassination by Charlotte Corday on 13 July 1793. [2] In 2001, art historian T. J. Clark called David's painting the first modernist work for "the way it took the stuff of politics as its material, and did not transmute it". [3]
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The last words she ever got to say to him were, “I love you, Jack. I love you,” according to Anderson, although Jackie herself recalled it slightly differently in a 1963 interview, as reported ...
The assassin of Jean-Paul Marat is the subject of "Charlotte Corday", from Famous Last Words. The subject of Nazi war criminals hiding in South America is featured in "Running Man" from 24 Carrots. The scandals of the foreshortened Warren Harding administration are the subject of "Warren Harding" from Past, Present and Future.
A caption on the words reads, "No need to 'spill the beans.' The images are worth a thousand words." Sen. Cruz of Texas responded, saying "Donald, real men don't attack women.