charlotte corday
Charlotte Corday
Charlotte Corday played a major role in the French revolution, assassinating Jean-Paul Marat, A radical in the French revolution. In an attempt to make the revolution more mild. Charlotte Corday was enthralled when she heard that a revolution was starting in France, and saw it as a chance to show her allegiance to a new, more liberal France, being a republican teen. Her family started to move away from France because the environment was becoming belligerent, and hostile. But she stayed in hope of the revolution pulling through and France becoming more liberal. Soon enough the violence of the revolution got to her with the killing of over 1,000 people by mobs in Paris, including women and children, and the execution of king Louis XVI. Corday found out about the Girondin’s and their story about how they had to exile France from being forced out by the Jacobins. She was largely impacted by this and sympathized with them. This was another factor leading her to realize the French revolution was too radical. She started to believe that the revolution being too radical could be just as bad, or worse as no revolution happening at all. So she decided to take matters into her own hands, and try to make the radicals take a big hit, hopefully destroying them. So she moved to France and devised a plan to assassinate Jean-Paul Marat, inspired by Ceasers assassination. She planned to stab him on the floor of the national convention. She chose Marat because he wrote in his newspaper: L’ Ami du Peuple, that execution of thousands for the revolution was necessary, and this upset Corday. This plan fell through when various attempts of Corday trying to meet with Marat were unsuccessful. Eventually Marat agreed to meet with Corday at his house while he bathed, because Corday claimed she had valuable information about a Girondin revolt. when they met Corday started to list off names of rebels then suddenly pulled a knife from her dress and stabbed Marat in the
Charlotte Corday played a major role in the French revolution, assassinating Jean-Paul Marat, A radical in the French revolution. In an attempt to make the revolution more mild. Charlotte Corday was enthralled when she heard that a revolution was starting in France, and saw it as a chance to show her allegiance to a new, more liberal France, being a republican teen. Her family started to move away from France because the environment was becoming belligerent, and hostile. But she stayed in hope of the revolution pulling through and France becoming more liberal. Soon enough the violence of the revolution got to her with the killing of over 1,000 people by mobs in Paris, including women and children, and the execution of king Louis XVI. Corday found out about the Girondin’s and their story about how they had to exile France from being forced out by the Jacobins. She was largely impacted by this and sympathized with them. This was another factor leading her to realize the French revolution was too radical. She started to believe that the revolution being too radical could be just as bad, or worse as no revolution happening at all. So she decided to take matters into her own hands, and try to make the radicals take a big hit, hopefully destroying them. So she moved to France and devised a plan to assassinate Jean-Paul Marat, inspired by Ceasers assassination. She planned to stab him on the floor of the national convention. She chose Marat because he wrote in his newspaper: L’ Ami du Peuple, that execution of thousands for the revolution was necessary, and this upset Corday. This plan fell through when various attempts of Corday trying to meet with Marat were unsuccessful. Eventually Marat agreed to meet with Corday at his house while he bathed, because Corday claimed she had valuable information about a Girondin revolt. when they met Corday started to list off names of rebels then suddenly pulled a knife from her dress and stabbed Marat in the