Letter from Charlotte Corday: the Normandy location wins the auction at 270,900 euros

The auctions had been hotly contested. And it become to the Normandy place that Charlotte Corday’s letter become bought for 270,900 euros all through the sale of the Osenat residence, this Sunday in Versailles. At 24, this younger Norman became a determine in the French Revolution through assassinating Marat in July 1793 in Paris. She acknowledged her gesture in a handwritten letter found on her before her execution. A particular piece over 230 years antique.

“It’s a superb sale, which lasted more than ten mins, says the Osenat sales administrator. It’s plenty. Usually it best lasts a couple of minutes at maximum. There had been at least three individuals online and at the smartphone. The auctions are well established and quickly. »

The sale rate greatly exceeds the estimates

The very last rate significantly exceeds the estimates of the auctioneer, Jean-Pierre Osenat, who set its price among 80,000 and a hundred,000 euros. Potential buyers began bidding from 70,000 before the bidding skyrocketed.

 

It is consequently the Normandy area in an effort to quickly recover the historical letter. Charlotte Corday, from a noble own family with out wealth and a descendant of Pierre Corneille, has indeed lived a large a part of her life there. And it's miles at the historical headquarters of the Region, in Caen in Calvados, inside the former Abbaye aux Dames, in which she herself entered in 1782 at the age of thirteen, that her political will have to be uncovered.

 

In this missive written on July 12, 1793, the young female, who had gone to Paris to devote a murder, explained her motion “inside the name of appreciate for the regulation and civil peace”. And takes movement the next day: she buys an ebony knife that she hides in her bodice, enters the physician journalist Jean-Pierre Marat, founding father of the political newspaper “l’Ami du peuple” and kills him. In his bathtub. She will then be arrested, imprisoned, sentenced to demise through the modern court docket and guillotined on July 17, 1793.