Free translatorFree translator
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Charlotte Corday   /ʃˈɑrlət kˈɔrdˌeɪ/   Listen
Charlotte Corday

noun
1.
French revolutionary heroine (a Girondist) who assassinated Marat (1768-1793).  Synonyms: Corday, Marie Anne Charlotte Corday d'Armont.





WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Charlotte Corday" Quotes from Famous Books



... delivered his speech, thought Count Hamilcar. Billy stood there in her white dress, red carnations at her belt, her arms hanging down, and the hands lightly clasped. Her face was pale and her eyes very bright. She looks resolute, flitted through the count's mind, Charlotte Corday at ...
— The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 • Various
... R.) will be seen the Refectory, all that remains of the great Franciscan monastery, and now used as a pathological museum (Musee Dupuytren), for medical students. In this hall was laid the body of Marat after his assassination by Charlotte Corday, and the famous club of the Cordeliers, where the gentler rhetoric of Camille Desmoulins vied with the thunderous declamation of Danton to stir republican fervour, met in the Hall of Theology. We pass to No. 5, ...
— The Story of Paris • Thomas Okey


Words linked to "Charlotte Corday" :   subversive, Marie Anne Charlotte Corday d'Armont, subverter, revolutionist, revolutionary


Copyright © 2024 Free Translator.org