The Shasta courier., 1867-05-11

She reached Paris in safety There she
Immediately wrote to Marat, declaring she
had revelations to make, and after many ap-
plications received at last reply appointing
an interview.
The hour was come. Dressed with ex-
eeedlng care, SO as to enhance her surpass-
ing beauty, she proceeded first to the Paias
Royal, where she bought for three francs a
long. sharp knife. Thus armed she pro-
ceeded to the Rue de Cordeliers, where
Marat resided.
Marat had apparently forgotten the ap
pointment, for be was in his bath when
Charlotte arrived. His wife, being as
ugly and perverted as himself, refused to
admit her but Marat, hearing the discus
sion, desired that she should be admitted
dirty, ink stained sheet was thrown over
the bath, but leaving only Marat's head and
shoulders visible. There was nothing in his
revolving and hideous appearance to inspire
compassion or to stay the hand of the assassin
Charlotte Corday stood firm in her resolve.
GIVE me the list you promised of the
Gronds sis a Caen, said he
She, without word, handed him paper.
:" 1t is WE'LL" said Marat after reading
1T; before another week their heads shall
be under the axe of the guilotine"
These words were scarcely uttered before
Charlotte Corday drawing forth her knife
plunged it to the hilt into Marat's heart.
His wild shrek brought his wife and his
household to his aid. The alarm was in
stantly given, and Charlotte Corday, who
had not made one attempt to escape, was ar
rested
Only by the gend 'armes was she saved
from the fury of the people, indeed, she bad
expected to be torn to pieces by the multi
tude; overpowered, half sufocated, she
tainted in the arms of the soldiers that bore
her to prison, and on coming to herself she
expressed her astonishment at not having
been massacred by the infuriated mob.
In her prison the young girl recovered all
her grace and gentleness. The deed was ac-
complished, and the heroine was once more a
woman.
Calmly she wrote to those who had been
dear to her, and to whom her doom would
bring CONSERVATION and sorrow In none OF
her letters does she express regret or repen-
tance. A grand daughter of the great Cor
nellie, she remembered and quotes to her
father this celebrated line lie crime fat la
honte ct non recAa .fand-'Tis crime and not
the scafold brings disgrace.
in Paris. Had her sentence been delayed
but for few month, instead of an assassin,
Charlotte Corday would have been looked on
as the preserver of her country.
But Tonquer Tinville saw the impression
her beauty had made on the public mind,
and hurried on her DOOM
During the trial young German attract
ed to Paris by the revolution, became deeply
enamored to the woman to whose life love
had been unknown, and for whom now even
love could do nothing.
He hung on her words; he watched every
expression of her features he shared every
emotion of the trial as it went on All he
ever obtained from the object Of his love was
a smile, when overcome with horror at her
sentence he uttered a loud cry.
As Raphael had painted Cenci, and Le-
brun Nine. de Brinvilliers, Charlotte, under
Of death, found an artist to hand
down to posterity her lovely and classical
features.
NJ. Huard, an artist CT talent, sat among
the spectators and sketched her as she stood.
But at Charlotte's request he was admit
ted to her cell and SO completed her picture.
She asked him to send a copy of it to her
family. Then during the other sitting she
would converse with him calmly on his art
and other topics of the day, with as much
concern as though she had been in her own
lrawing groom.
NJ. Huard was present when the red shirt
in which she was to die was put on her, and
was so struck by the effect of the scarlet
color on her complexion, that in this last
costume he has painted her.
Bidding the artist last farewell, she cut
a long lock from her hair and gave it to him.
1t is all now possess on earth," said
she.
She took leave of her council, NJ. Cheean
lie Lagaide, in words worthy of the sub
Unity of the ancients.
:" Sir" said she, after thanking him for
his offices, =" the little money | possessed has
been confscated by my sentence. | have
few small debts in prison, to
you l bequeath them
Pale and erect, her eyes raised to Heaven,
she passed slowly along to the place of exc
,ution.
The crowd gazed in awe at her grand and
wonderful beauty Robespierre, Danton,
Camille, Desmonlius saluted her as she
passed. Adam Lux walked beside the
one hand on the cart that was bear 4
ing to death the object of his sudden and vio- 1
lent passion.
At the sight Of the guillotine Charlotte
Cordav for the first time since her crime
gave signs of emotion and turned pale. Only
momentarv was her terror she recovered
her self command. and, with a firm step
mounted the ladder.
She shrank from the executiorer as he took
IF the handkerchief which covered her
bosom, and resolving not to again submit to
his touch, after one long, serene gaze at the
multitude. herself laid her head in the groove
Of the guillotine beneath the axe.
The executioner, thinking to please the
neople. raised the head as it rolled into the
basket and struck it in the face-an insult
10 death and woman, which was resented
with a groan by this strange and caprlcions
people, 1t is affirmed that Charlotte Corday
blushed deeply at the cnwardly insult.
though her head had been severed from her
body several seconds. An anecdote whieh-i
yoks like an invention, but which many
men have not deemed impossible
it being supposed that until all the blood
lad gone out of the head the brain still re-
aims sensation.
A few days after the execution of Char
otte Corday, Alan Lux was arrested for q
,ulogium he published on the woman who
lad become bis idol, and persisted on tho
Icaffold.