Charlotte Corday
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+ | [[Image:The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David (1793).jpg|thumb|left|200px|''[[The Death of Marat]]'' (1793) by Jacques-Louis David]] | ||
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+ | What I have to say cannot be said in writing<br> | ||
+ | I want to stand in front of him and look at him<br> | ||
+ | [amorously]<br> | ||
+ | I want to see his body tremble and his forehead bubble with sweat<br> | ||
+ | I want to thrust right between his ribs the dagger which I carry between my breasts<br> | ||
+ | [obsessively]<br> | ||
+ | I shall take the dagger in both hands<br> | ||
+ | and push it through his flesh<br> | ||
+ | and then I will hear<br> | ||
+ | [approaches MARAT]<br> | ||
+ | what he has got to say to me<br> | ||
+ | [She stands directly in front of the bath.<br> | ||
+ | She raises dagger and is poised to strike.<br> | ||
+ | SIMONNE stands paralysed.<br> | ||
+ | SADE rises from his seat.] <br> | ||
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+ | --[[Charlotte Corday]] in ''[[Marat/Sade]]'' (1964) | ||
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+ | '''Charlotte Corday''' (1768 – 1793) was a French aristocrat executed in 1793 by [[guillotine]] for the assassination of [[Jacobin Club|Jacobin]] leader [[Jean-Paul Marat]], who was in part responsible for the more radical course the Revolution had taken through his role as a politician and journalist. | ||
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+ | Marat had played a substantial role in the political purge of the [[Girondins]], with whom Corday sympathized. His murder was depicted in the painting ''[[The Death of Marat]]'' by [[Jacques-Louis David]], which shows Marat's dead body after Corday had stabbed him in his medicinal bath. | ||
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+ | In [[Peter Weiss]]'s ''[[Marat/Sade]]'', the assassination of Marat is presented as a play, written by the [[Marquis de Sade]], to be performed by inmates of the asylum at Charenton, for the public; the patient performing the role of Corday in the play-within-a-play ([[Glenda Jackson]] in the stage production and subsequent [[Marat/Sade (film)|film adaptation]]) is, somewhat ironically, a [[Narcolepsy|narcoleptic]]. | ||
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Charlotte Corday (1768 – 1793) was a French aristocrat executed in 1793 by guillotine for the assassination of Jacobin leader Jean-Paul Marat, who was in part responsible for the more radical course the Revolution had taken through his role as a politician and journalist.
Marat had played a substantial role in the political purge of the Girondins, with whom Corday sympathized. His murder was depicted in the painting The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David, which shows Marat's dead body after Corday had stabbed him in his medicinal bath.
In Peter Weiss's Marat/Sade, the assassination of Marat is presented as a play, written by the Marquis de Sade, to be performed by inmates of the asylum at Charenton, for the public; the patient performing the role of Corday in the play-within-a-play (Glenda Jackson in the stage production and subsequent film adaptation) is, somewhat ironically, a narcoleptic.