A letter from Charlotte Corday, who murdered Marat, offered for 215,000 euros at auction

This lot, which changed into predicted among 80,000 and 100,000 euros. BERTRAND GUAY / AFP

In this missive obtained with the aid of the Directorate of Heritage and Culture of Normandy, the younger woman explains her gesture.

A letter explaining his gesture, observed on Charlotte Corday just after the assassination of the modern Jean-Paul Marat, was offered for 215,000 euros (270,900 with charges) in Versailles, the Osenat public sale residence stated on Sunday. The happy new owner is the Direction du patrimoine et de los angeles culture de Normandie.

This lot, which turned into envisioned between 80,000 and one hundred,000 euros, is sold “concern to acquiring a final decision at the status of this manuscript. In the intervening time, the report remains in sequestration inside the secure of our office“says Osenat. This three-web page file, entitled “Address to French buddies of regulation and peace», is presented via the auction residence as «the political testament she wrote the day earlier than her murderous act».

«Acquired by way of the Directorate of Heritage and Culture of Normandy“, he'll be part of”the headquarters of the Normandy place within the former Abbaye aux Dames within the metropolis of Caen“, in addition info Osenat. This assassination, on July thirteen, 1793, is remembered, thank you specially to David’s portray. Charlotte Corday, at the start from Normandy, became handiest 24 years vintage when she perpetrated this murder, for which she was guillotined.

This report was observed on her for the duration of her search upon her arrival in jail. The younger female deplores the deviation of the progressive ideals to which she had adhered and the brutality of energy. Marat is for her a symbol of this, which she qualifies as “vilest of villains, (…) whose name alone offers the photo of all the crimes».

This letter, eliminated from the indictment against Charlotte Corday, has passed thru the arms of diverse personal creditors due to the fact that the start of the 19th century. The president of the Normandy place Hervé Morin, his counterpart from the Calvados branch Jean-Léonce Dupont and the mayor of Caen Joël Bruneau, welcomed their acquisition.

«This Norman from Caen, a middle of Girondism throughout the French Revolution, had landed in Paris in July 1793 with the goal of assassinating Marat“, don't forget the three Norman leaders in a joint press launch. “230 years later, this principal piece of the history of the Revolution and the combat towards Terror will return to its land of starting place, Normandy“, they conclude.