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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1835 edition. Excerpt: ... carried to the Guillotine, and executed.--His character--Struggles that followed his Fate.--Final Destruction of the Jacobinical System--and return of Tranquillity.--Singular colour given to Society in Paris.--Ball of the Victims. The reader need not be reminded, that the three distinguished champions who assumed the front in the Jacobin ranks, were Marat, Danton, and Robespierre. The first was poniarded by Charlotte Corday,1 an enthusiastic young person, who had nourished, in a feeling betwixt lunacy and heroism, the ambition of ridding the world of a tyrant.2 1 Charlotte Corday was bora, in 1768, near Seez, in Normandy. She was twenty-five years of age, and resided at Caen, when she conceived and executed the design of ridding the world of this monster. She reached Paris on the 11 th July, and on the 12th wrote a note to Marat, soliciting an interview, and purchased in the Palais-Royal a knife to plunge into the bosom of the tyrant. On the 13th, she obtained admission to Marat, whom she found in bis bath-room. He, enquired after the prescribed deputies at Caen. Being told their names--' They shall soon, ' he said, meet with the punishment they deserve. -- Thine is at hand! exclaimed she, and stabbed him to the heart. She was immediately brought to trial, and executed on the 17th.--Lacretelle, t. xi. p. 47; Montgaillard, t. iv. p. 55.--Charlotte Corday was descended, in a direct line, from the great Corneille. See the genealogical table of the Corneille family, prefixed to Lepan's Chefs-d' (Euvres de Corneille, t. v. 8vo. 1816. Marat was born at Neuchatel in 1744. He was not five feet high. His countenance was equally ferocious and hideous, and his head monstrous in size. He wore, says Madame Roland, boots, but no stockings, a pair of...

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