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Charlotte Corday
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Charlotte Corday
« J'étais républicaine bien avant la Révolution », tels furent les mots de Charlotte Corday lors de son procès. Mais à l'époque on refusa de l'entendre et la légende tenace s'est perpétuée jusqu'à aujourd'hui d'une royaliste exaltée qui avait assassiné le républicain Marat. Il suffisait pourtant de lire ce qu'elle a écrit ou dit – on possède les minutes de son procès – pour découvrir une autre image, celle d'une jeune provinciale de vingt-cinq ans, farouchement opposée à sa famille et son milieu, d'origine aristocratique et, par-delà, une mystique assoiffée de liberté, de justice et de paix qui entendit anéantir – en assassinant un homme de l’âge de son père – le symbole vivant de la violence, le premier théoricien de la Terreur dont Karl Marx reconnaîtra l'importance en annotant ses écrits. C'est à la redécouverte de cette personnalité fascinante que s'est employée Jacqueline Dauxois, avec une ferveur – qui n'exclut pas le sens critique – au diapason de celle de son héroïne.
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Survived by One
On November 8, 1985, 18-year-old Tom Odle brutally murdered his parents and three siblings in the small southern Illinois town of Mount Vernon, sending shockwaves throughout the nation. The murder of the Odle family remains one of the most horrific family mass murders in U.S. history. Odle was sentenced to death and, after seventeen years on death row, expected a lethal injection to end his life. However, Illinois governor George Ryan’s moratorium on the death penalty in 2000, and later commutation of all death sentences in 2003, changed Odle’s sentence to natural life. The commutation of his death sentence was an epiphany for Odle. Prior to the commutation of his death sentence, Odle li...
Beware Madame la Guillotine
Time-travel to 1793 and the French Revolution with this historical drama narrated by Charlotte Corday, 24-year-old schoolgirl-turned-murderess. Find out why she abandoned her family to stalk radical leader Jean-Paul Marat. Experience how she was caught up in the chaos that claimed the lives of her king and queen, and rocked her nation, and the world, forever. Time Traveler Tales interactive books harness the fiction writer's flair for storytelling with the scholar's pursuit of fact to bring history to life. They are true stories, beautifully told, and peppered throughout with puzzles, text boxes, and archival illustrations. What's more, our narrators, hand picked from the historical record, are certain to draw you in and keep you there. Discover history with those who made it!
