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Old 07-13-2015, 02:38 PM   #589
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Today in 1793 Charlotte Corday assassinated French revolutionary Jean Paul Marat in his bathtub, by stabbing him with a knife hidden in her bodice. This event was immortalized, and is best known, by the painting of his supine corpse by Neo-classicist artist Jacques-Louis David. As for Mlle. Corday, she was guillotined 4 days later. And in 1798 William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy visited a ruined church called Tintern Abbey. The poem thus inspired, published later that year, expounded many of the principles of the Romantic school of poetry.

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