Show r I ii 1 li t I THE s sore u ore Study 1 i by Seymour 4 4 1 Seyour tonJ i iZ Dr Directed ed by Prof Prof Seymour Eaton a o 4 Z Seyou ot I 4 t f 43 4 UDIES S T FOR TOR GI GIRLS V T E CORDAY BY BREWSTER 8 Marie lott Cora Corday D DAr mans ko c history as Charlote Charlotte Corday r br born at Orne 1768 Her life Ufe was devoid of f indent incident her history lay in te the evets Crests lending leading UP to her sef self chOn chosen d death eath An example o of one Of ta th man many abnor abnormal accidents accidents of the Unnatural conditions engendered by the French she would probably lon long since have hae ben been oe consigned to oblivion were i it not for the romantic itee interest aroused iy by the appealing por portrait trait pained painted a fe few hour boWs before her Te The artist Hauer privileged to paint this portrait upon which the later idealized e picture pictures have ben been founded bears willing testimony to the simplicity of character ad amid sweetness of soul which irradiated a countenance naturally beautiful beautiful Thee There Is n no doubt that her hers was an un unusually IOV lovely I quite different t type ot of beauty train from that invariably ascribed to aU all sensational heine heroines who pay the death penalty enly It is probable that her most popular portrait panted painted by C L Mul Muller ler representing her in the white mob mobcap cp cap made especially for her execution wih with quill in hd hand looking out earnestly from behind behin l her ha has done muc much to hold popular judgment in equi Wa Was this pure faced young girl who deliberately took the life Ufe of Marat at a murderer or a hero lao ino She would undoubtedly have fig figure figured ure aa as a cla classIc c a feminine Brutus in inthe inthe the glor glory that was Greece Te The grandeur that was Rome But in this unimpassioned century looking coldly bak back upon the feer fever het heat which burned Itself out in Fa France Jeas years ag ago who shall say whether Charlotte Corday ws was sent by God Gud t to avee avenge her count country In other wOrds should the heroes of history be judged by th standards of the day in which they lived or gauged by modern criteria The youth of Charlote Charlotte Cor Corday dy like that of Joan of Ae Arc was of te the kind that foster fosters introspection fecs feeds imag imagination imagination and prolongs childhood niely I It was va not amid her fos flocks on the tho but in the cloistered se cc elusion of the Dames founded at Caen for the daughters daughters of the poor nobility by Matda Matilda wie wife of William the Conqueror tat that Carlotte Charlotte Cordys mystic tok took he her to tG her doo doom Here che e devoured whatever book books came to her hand ab absorbing absorbing gely greedily whatever savored Of patriotism and equality of rights Wie her mind was in this vortex of reading news reached her of f the increasing rean infamy of Marat Marat Marat Marat the head of the Mountain the editor of the r revolutIonary press upon which s so many republican hope hopes had been founded the incarnation of aU all te that was evil in Iii the French te ha had by mens means of unparalleled atrocities tes ties raised himself to the highest power i let his hiB party Danton and the other members of this terrible tri tn were unable to satisfy Ma Marats Marats rats rats unquenchable for blood In Incorruptible corruptible in mane money maters matters he us one of the vilest of ma man mankind kind No le lie w was too monstrous no atrocity to sanguinary to deba debar his hideous His brain wa was turn turned d dby by hil his immense power Even hIs ad adherents adherents abhor abhorred his leprous bOdy and livid ler leer to sit near the deona demoniac whom tey they had rai raised d to power Re He it WM was wh who urged the of Louis XVI 1 and upon his constituency to ki kill adherents of the old regime He even even wished to reduce the convention the republican organ of the g govern ern meat ment by this same cel celm cruel m measure aur The who hd had forc forced Louis XV Xvi t to become a constitutional ton king had ben been entirely super b by Marats sE party known a as te the Jacobins And now Marats venom waS wag turne turned agans against the ad and he announced in his journal that of their h heads ad w were re rencE ncE to consolidate the liberties of France Surely if i ever were right for forme formen me men to usurp Gos Gods prerogative of sum summoning moning a soul to te the other world such sucha sucha a a U upon mankind a as Marat would see seem to justify the dee deed Upon the suppression of f the con convents vents by the national convention Char Charlotte Charlotte lotte Corday returned to her home at een Caen Wel Well re read d in ancient history ad and verd versed In the tho mr more modern of p political she had expected the to bring about an Ideal pure republic When expelled the them from the the convention Charlote Charlotte Corday at the head of the young oung girls Of the city wet went out to met macat those re returning turning to Ca t ii and presented tem them wih with crOwns and With Wih her father she attended an their indignation meetings but was ns disgusted at their pusillanimity Volunteers were cled called upon or of Caen to lead an in ins s l movement against Maat Marat but 3 so tc were wera they b by Ma Marats a arts rats limitless power for vi viI that that but thirty responded to the roll of the drum Then Charlotte Corday realized for or te the frt tm time te the powe power ed f the he head d ote of the Preach government If he could me make s so nerveless thee these men whom le be had wronged wronged he mut must rule by right or of terror aone alone and d she Char Charlote Charlotte lote lotte Cray Corday who knew no fea fear would rid her countr Country of this and justice ad and peace ce w would Uld return It ItIs Is sd said tat that t first r she debated wit with herself whether Fre France should hould be re of Marat art or of but the cal call of the forer former to mars guillotine combined wit with the testimony e the proscribed Giron ds brought back to Normandy do seek Marat with without her to se out wIt out d delay lay laySe Se She accordingly se fort forth for Paris taking no one her confidence but to sho shoot Marat in the mIdst of the assembly Finding tt she could not c carry out her intention ot of kling killing him before te the people like her classic herie heroines in the plays of her Pierre she decided to purchase a a new weapon wit with which to dispatch him at his hishme home for Marat wa was to too i ill to g go any anymore anymore more t to the n and admItted no vIsitors Ater After buying a a sha sharp knife of a culer cutler she persuaded one Duper Duperret ret a a to take her to Mats Marats hoUe house bu but bot both were denie denied admission She the then wrote two wo notes to he her victim declaring declaring wih with the anor abnormal cunning which te the mot most simple mine minded sem seem to develop on occasion that she hal had im important important s secrets cret to disclose to him Re Returning Returning turning i in the eyeing evening she gained ad while Mat Marat wa was in his ba h Referring to the deputes deputies Of her neighborhood he be sad said that he woud would have them arrested ad and executed the se same dy day whereupon hereu on Charlotte I COray Corday plunged the kie knife which she sh I I I I i 1 Ff L rT I S MIi A AA 1 A j IN PRISON had concealed In h her r neckerchIef into his heart Having achieved what she conceived to be a commendable acton action she re refu refused fu fused al all opportunities ot of escape ad and calmly awaited arret arrest She was not nell only willing but anxious to sacrifice her life blood for the god good or of her court coun I I t try She was was alarmed however at t the attacks of the infuriated Infuriated multitude I who would have undoubtedly tor torn her herto t to piece pieces ha had she not bee been abt ably pr pro protected I tecte by the chief of police Not that I feared 1 to die she sid said but i it was repugnant to my may womans nature to be torn to pieces before everybody Before te the revolutionary tribunal she showed the sae cam calm and modes modest dig dignity losing her innocent but once once Wen when ed that she could not have killed her victim so successfully had she not net been accustoming her hand to it Oh te the I wretch she exclaimed in an arton se exclaimed that tok took the court room by sto storm He takes me for an assIn assassin When te the president ten then asked her how she could rah reach the heart at th the ver very fir first blow she replied Indignation had arouse aroused my her heart and showed mi mite m te the way t to his The president tred tried to induce Cunel cOunsel to toI toI I Mf plead Insanity but she urge urged premeditation tation mUon so strongly that te the president preme agan again trie tried t to save save he her by omitting In his charge to the j jury ry te the clause wit with criminal and de do sIgns He was arrested and sIgs wa tried for this suppression a tew ew days later but buthis his llis efforts were unavailing fa for she was condemned to immediate execution Wie While M Hauer the ari artist was painting her portrait the gendarmes entered wih with the red robe b which mar mur derer wore ore at their execution She displayed no hesitation i in putting it on There w was nothIng of te the savage vi 1 rg rage or coward about he her for Se she was uplifted by the thought that by sed shed ding the blood of one ma man and giving up UI her ow own in penalty she had sved saved the blood ot of thousands ot of her count countrymen en Danton and Desmoulins who had Stationed te them themselves selve selves on the road to the guillotine were ae amazed at her peaceful and ma calmness so unlike that ot of other victims had not before the guillotine yet had bad kept up their spirits wih with patriotic speeches and song songs A deputy from Mayence lot lest his re uncommon thing during the reign of sight of her red robed beauty radiant in th sunset and requested to be execute executed immediately afterward that he might join the woman geter greater than Brutus in another world His request was as granted but Charlotte Corday never kew knew of hI singular devotion She retained the J name ame unflinching I calm on the scaffold and showe showed no emotion except that of wishing to hurry the executioner after atter he had arranged her cl clothing for the guillotine aed A mIn mm ion of Mats Marats struck her fa face e a a blow when te the executioner held it up to the te mb mob and it is a wl well atee attested f fact that se she blushed and looked with 1 upon his impertinence I Chalotte Charlotte e dd did not brn bring abut about the results for which It w was td made Upon the deat death of f Mart Macat jl i who would have died in a few months ot of hf his loathsome diseases te the bloo blood Of France flowed ed f than lo more freely ly tan ever everI everIn I In fact fact it w vas followed by some wor worst atrocities ot of the reign of terror re Dds of Marat Mant wih with I w ds wa was exhibited on an alt altar in inthe I te the Luyre Louvre ad and then inte lathe coYen convention on ad and ket kept stra streams Of bloo blood flowing to tote I te the shades of Marat artt For fou four de dread dreadful d I ful month months the t ax and drowning drong purged of thou thousand thousands ure sand sands of its members Finally friends and fo foes combined to overthrow Robes pie pierre ad and the Sad nd fr for which Charlotte Corday had gie he h r life Ufe was rached reached at las last Of th the of her deed the there a are ny meny grave doubt doubts of het he beauty sincerity and ana purity of charLie charac character ter ter there is no queston n CO of Spring Te Term 1900 Mondays American Political Parties Tuesdays Twenty L Lessons n in French and R Recent cent Scientific Di Die and Thura Thursdays Glde Golden A Ages ot of Literature Fridays Photography fOr Amateur Amateurs Saturdays Studies for tor Girls These cue courses wil will continue until May 31 10 Examinations will be held at their close as cate cates a bas basis for the granting of cert |