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The Guillotine
She precisely was not a heroine nor was she guilty, just a woman who must not have spoken. Instead, she could have embroiled her thoughts and anger quietly on a cushion as the others. Particularly, she must not have read Rousseau and become intoxicated by his ideas; yet she should not have underlined this quote of his with her finger “Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?” Was she guilty at all?
She whispered her secret desires into the bottle, threw out to the ocean, and her scream was heard all over the world. It seemed that all she could expect from life was running around like a chicken that’s head is cut off.
She took the risk of being neither heroine nor a murderer and acted alone, all by herself; it was her who stabbed him to death in his bath tab. She killed Marat; she killed a man to save thousands. It was her. Was she guilty at all? She waited for people to see and appreciate, quietly…
Is a man who throws himself out the window to escape from the fire guilty of suicide? Then she was guilty. After four days from Marat’s death, her head was cut off by a sharp knife under the Guillotine… Indeed it was Marie-Anne who was punished, but I am l'ange de l'assassinat. The Angel of Assassination, I am not dead.
Written by Zeynep Kasap



Wikipedia, Charlotte de Corday
Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday, as known to history as Charlotte Corday, was a figure of the French Revolution. In 1793, she was executed under the guillotine for the assassination of Jacobin leader Jean-Paul Marat, who was in part responsible, through his role as a politician and journalist, for the more radical course the Revolution had taken. More specifically, he played a substantial role in the political purge of the Girondins, with whom Corday sympathized. His murder was memorialized in a celebrated painting by Jacques-Louis David which shows Marat after Corday had stabbed him to death in his bathtub. In 1847, writer Alphonse de Lamartine gave Corday the posthumous nickname l'ange de l'assassinat (the Angel of Assassination).
History 102, French Revolution
Studied Rousseau and Voltaire growing up Believed Marat was a tyrant who would cause civil war Acted alone, entered Marat’s apartment and stabbed him to death in his bathtub At trial she said "I killed one man to save 100,000.” And she executed by guillotine 4 days after assassinating Marat.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau quotes
“Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?”