Corday

or Corday d’Armans, Marie Anne Charlotte, a young French woman of great beauty and courage, who became the murdere of the revolutionist Marat. She was born in St. Saturn in, near Seez, in Normandy, in 1768, the granddaughter of the poet Corneille. Marat appeared to her the master-spirit of the atrocities perpetrated or threatened, and she determined to rid the country of him. She left her home, and arriving in Paris went to Marat’s house, but was not admitted. She fared a large knife, and July 13, 1793 procured admittance to Marat, with this weapon concealed under her garments. She with desperate determination, at once plunged her knife into his bosom, and e instantly expired. She was condemned, and guillotined, July 17, 1793.