Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-20
CHARLOTTA CORDAY.
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Among the many famous incidents of
the history of modern times there Is
probably ons which possesses a more
vivid interest in the minds Of most of us
than the story Of Charlotte Corday's
assassination of the sanguinary Marat.
The story, indeed, has become one of
the legends of French history, and
which has had a peculiar fascination
with all modera readers, some believing
Charlotte Corday to have been a fright
fully Republican murderess, and others
investing her with all the interesting
romance Of an enthusiastic Royalist,
and the uniformed regarding her with
the same kind of imperfect knowledge
that the world possesses respecting the
'Cenci." 1t is not until this moment
that Parisians have been suddenly re.
minded that the house in which Marat
resided, aud where Charlotte Corday
assassinated him on the 18th of July,
1893 (tor which she was executed two
days laterl ia actually one OF those that
many OF them have passed every day of
their lives, and within the last week or
so q written announcement has been
placed on the door of the porte cochere
Of the house, to the effect that the room
in which Marat was assassinated, can
be seen by the public for the small
charge Of a franc. The proviucials have
aocksd tojthe Rue de pEcole de Mede-
cine, and among other distinguished
individuals His Imperial Highness, the
the Emperor eff Brazil, whose love of
old Paris is only equalled by bis esteem
for modern science. The old house in
the Rue de rEcole de Medicine mo. 2O)
which in a very few days will be leveled
with the ground, was one Of those sub.
stantially built Partisan residences of
the latter days of Louis XIVth's reign,
with the familiar porte cochere and
small court, cut Of which ran an open
stone staircase ascending by a very
gradual slope, and, passing the eutresol,
reached the first floor, in which was
placed Msrat apartment, looking on to
the court. II this part OF the house
there appears TO have been little or no
change during the present century; but
with al it's recollecSions, we cannot
effect 10 feel any great sentiment at the
loss Of the house where MArat was killed,
although it c'%rtaiuly possessed artistic
merit such IS never appears absent from
the productions of the past days. With
in but a few steps of Marat's house, still
exists the Cour de Commerce, which in
its antique picturesqueness, reminding
one OF the old Change alley of the
South Sea Bubble, seems a worthy home
for the revolutionary traditions which
Turk in its mysterious corners. There
dwelt Dsnton, one OF the great lovers
of that awful page Of history, along with
many another conversational whose
heads fell before the bloody struggle was
over. Within a stones throw, again, of
Marat's house, is the Rue de lAncienne
Coincide, whrae still remain some relics
dear to the dramatic antiquafy-of
the old French theatre OF the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries; not far of, in
the Rue de rEcole de Medicine, is the
famous Musee Dupuytien established,
in the still existing remains Of the Con-
vent Of Cordeliers during the Reyolu.
ton, as it was in this building that met
the terrible Club des Cordeliers');
above the houses may be seen towering
the classic SorbanDe, and within but a
short distance, the Musee de Cluny, with
its Roman remains, fifteenth century ar
chitecture, and its priceless contents.