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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 ...
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. The attack was carried out on 22 ...
Charlotte Corday is an opera in three acts by Lorenzo Ferrero to an Italian-language libretto by Giuseppe Di Leva, written on commission from the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma for the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution which was commemorated in 1989. The fundamental theme of the opera is the individual terrorist action committed by anyone ...
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, usually shortened to Marat/Sade (pronounced [ma.ʁa.sad]), is a 1967 British film adaptation of Peter Weiss ' play Marat/Sade. The screen adaptation is directed by Peter Brook, and originated in ...
Charlotte Corday (disambiguation) 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 ...
Jean-Paul Marat (UK: / ˈmærɑː /, US: / məˈrɑː /, [1][2] French: [ʒɑ̃pɔl maʁa]; born Mara; 24 May 1743 – 13 July 1793) was a French political theorist, physician, and scientist. [3] A journalist and politician during the French Revolution, he was a vigorous defender of the sans-culottes, a radical voice, and published his views in ...
Charlotte Corday (1919 film) Charlotte Corday. (1919 film) Charlotte Corday is a 1919 German silent historical drama film directed by Frederic Zelnik and starring Lya Mara and Hermann Vallentin. [1] No surviving copies are known.
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]