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Definition of Charlotte Corday
1. Noun. French revolutionary heroine (a Girondist) who assassinated Marat (1768-1793).
Generic synonyms: Revolutionary, Revolutionist, Subversive, Subverter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Charlotte Corday
Literary usage of Charlotte Corday
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"THE DEATH OF MARAT From <Charlotte Corday ' ON THE evening of the 13th of July,
after leaving Du Perret, Charlotte Corday started to return to her hotel, ..."
2. The History of Modern Painting by Richard Muther (1907)
"executed smoothly and forcibly in his dead " Marat," Baudry spoiled in his "
Charlotte Corday." The bath, the night-table with the inkstand on it, ..."
3. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)
"... statements—as the phrase, for instance, that Charlotte Corday, falsely believing
herself betrayed, ' emporta ' une injustice sur 1'echafaud '? ..."
4. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle (1908)
"... BOOK IV TERROR CHAPTER I Charlotte Corday IN the leafy months of June and
July, several French Departments germinate a set of rebellious /o/ter-leaves, ..."
5. The Works of Thomas Carlyle by Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1896)
"BOOK FOURTH TERROR CHAPTER I Charlotte Corday Ix the leafy months of June and
July, several French Departments germinate a set of rebellious paper-\ea,ves, ..."
6. The History of France by EYRE EVANS. CROWE (1866)
"The low doorway, through which Charlotte Corday entered, betrays its being of
another age. ... Charlotte Corday, before uncertain, started up at the word, ..."
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