Jean Paul Marat-for whose shrunken chest, at that very moment, poor, politics-crazed Charlotte corday was sharpening the twenty-eight-cent case knife she had just bought.
"Superwomen"
Albert Payson Terhune
This piece has excited a considerable sensation at Paris; and the part of the heroine, "Charlotte corday," being enacted by Madame Dorval, a very clever actress, it is very popular.
"The Idler in France"
Marguerite Gardiner
"Charlotte corday" is represented in the piece, not as a heroine actuated purely by patriotic motives in seeking the destruction of a tyrant who inflicted such wounds on her country, but by the less sublime one of avenging the death of her lover.
"The Idler in France"
Marguerite Gardiner
