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Corday was the inspiration for the recurring character Charlotte Colde, simply Charlotte in the Samurai Shodown series of fighting video games. In the game, her character is a gorgeous blonde French warrior in armor and wielding a fencing sabre .
— 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 ...
Famous Last Words is the twelfth studio album by Scottish-born English singer Al Stewart, ... "Charlotte Corday" – 3:47 (Stewart, Tori Amos) "Hipposong" – 1:52
The massive bleeding was fatal within seconds. Slumping backwards, Marat cried out his last words to Simone, "Aidez-moi, ma chère amie!" ("Help me, my beloved!") and died. [28] [56] Corday was a Girondin sympathizer [57] who came from an impoverished royalist family; her brothers were émigrés who had left to
Both Eastern and Western cultural traditions ascribe special significance to words uttered at or near death, [4] but the form and content of reported last words may depend on cultural context. There is a tradition in Hindu and Buddhist cultures of an expectation of a meaningful farewell statement; Zen monks by long custom are expected to ...
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 ...
Although born in Greenock, [7] Al Stewart grew up in the town of Wimborne, Dorset, England, after moving from Scotland with his mother, Joan Underwood.His father, Alastair MacKichan Stewart, who served as a flight lieutenant in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died in a plane crash during a 1945 training exercise before his son Al was born. [8]
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 (1919 film), a 1919 German silent film; Operation Charlotte Corday, an assassination attempt against Charles de Gaulle in 1962