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Charlotte Corday

noun

French revolutionary heroine (a Girondist) who assassinated Marat (1768-1793). Synonyms: Corday, Marie Anne Charlotte Corday d'Armont.

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... very terrible person, a sort of Charlotte Corday in a schoolgirl's dress; a ferocious patriot. I suppose you would have stuck a ...

— Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard • Joseph Conrad

... betray the anxious precautions taken to insure lives which, according to their own professions, have been rendered valueless by tyranny, and ought therefore to be the more freely risked. Felton and Charlotte Corday understood their business better; but even their preparations may be called elaborate, compared with those ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 8, No. 48, October, 1861 • Various

Words linked to "Charlotte Corday" : subversive, Corday, revolutionary, subverter, revolutionist