Charlotte Corday, the Angel of Assassination

Noble Blood

iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 13.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

A minor aristocrat, Charlotte Corday could have lived an ordinary life in Normandy in the 18th century. Instead, she took it upon herself to kill the prominent leader of the Jacobin revolutionaries - a newspaper writer named Marat - while he soaked in his bathtub.

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0:00.0	Prepare to venture to venture to the darkest most haunted locations once again.
0:06.0	About 4 o'clock in the morning it felt like the hand of God touched the castle.
0:11.0	The whole thing just shook. Brace yourself for a
0:15.1	supernatural journey unlike any other. It felt like there were other guests go
0:21.6	staying with us that we could not see.
0:24.1	Listen to Haunted Road season five on the I Heart Radio app, Apple
0:27.5	Podcasts, or wherever you get your favorite shows.
0:31.2	Welcome to Noble Blood, a production of I Heart Radio and Grim and Mild from Aaron Manky.
0:37.0	Listener discretion advised. July 17th, 1793, a young woman only 24 years old gets ready to don the red over blouse worn by
1:00.5	condemned traitors of the French people.
1:04.4	The woman has been found guilty and she will be executed.
1:08.8	But in the hours before she's led to the guillotine,
1:12.0	she has one final request.
1:14.8	Since I still have a few moments to live, might I hope, citizens, that you will allow
1:21.8	me to have my portrait painted.
1:24.0	The president of the Revolutionary Tribunal apparently had a soft spot for this woman,
1:30.0	and so at the last moment her request was granted. Her artist was to be a
1:36.4	National Guardsman Jean-Jacques Howard who had already begun sketching the
1:41.7	woman during her trial.
1:44.2	His studio was her prison cell.
1:46.8	He was given the extremely brief time to work
1:50.8	between her sentencing and her ride in the tumbrel to her death.
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