BIB_ID
193087
Accession number
MA 4372 (1-4)
Creator
Corday, Marie Anne Charlotte, 1768-1793.
Display Date
[1793] July 17.
Credit line
Purchase; Mrs. Charles Wrightsman; 1985.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 22.4 cm.
Notes
Items 3 and 4 are written on letterhead stamped "Tribunal Criminel-Revolutionnaire ... " [Three other notes written by Corday between her crime and execution (13-17 July 1793) are known to exist.]
Provenance
The Calvin Bullock Collection.
Summary
Rebuking her lawyer for failing to defend her, and thanking the one who did: "le Citoyen doulcet de pontecoulant est un lache d'avoir refusé de me defendre, lorsque la chose était si facile. Celui qui la fait s'en est acquitté avec toute la dignité possible, je lui en conserve ma reconnaissance jusqu'au dernier moment. Marie de Corday." These are Corday's last written words, written as she awaited execution for the assassination by stabbing of Marat.
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