Speaker 1: Welcome to Noble Blood, A production of iHeartRadio and Grimm
Speaker 1: and Mild from Aaron Mankie Listener Discretion advised July seventeenth,
Speaker 1: seventeen ninety three. A young woman only twenty four years
Speaker 1: old gets ready to don the red overblouse worn by
Speaker 1: condemned traitors of the French people. The woman has been
Speaker 1: found guilty and she will be executed, but in the
Speaker 1: hours before she's led to the guillotine, she has one
Speaker 1: final request. Since I still have a few moments to live,
Speaker 1: might I hope citizens, that you will allow me to
Speaker 1: have my portrait painted. The President of the Revolutionary Tribunal
Speaker 1: apparently had a soft spot for this woman, and so
Speaker 1: at the last moment her request was granted. Her artist
Speaker 1: was to be a National guardsman, Jean Jacques Hower, who
Speaker 1: had already begun sketching the woman during her trial. His
Speaker 1: studio was her prison cell. He was given the extremely
Speaker 1: brief time to work between her sentencing and her ride
Speaker 1: in the Tumbril to her death. The infamous executioner Charles
Speaker 1: Henri Sensen reflected in his memoirs that when he came
Speaker 1: to cut the prisoner's hair while the portrait was still
Speaker 1: being painted. The woman first cut off a lock herself
Speaker 1: and gave it to the painter. The small gesture sparks
Speaker 1: a lot of questions. Was it a token of appreciation,
Speaker 1: a reference material to ensure that he got her hair
Speaker 1: color right? And then there are the larger questions, why
Speaker 1: did this woman ask for a portrait to be painted
Speaker 1: in the first place? And perhaps the question you were
Speaker 1: wondering at this very moment listening to this podcast, who
Speaker 1: is this woman? That question I can answer right now.
Speaker 1: Her name was Charlotte Corday. She was a minor noble
Speaker 1: and by all accounts, a fairly ordinary young woman until
Speaker 1: she became the murderer of the revolutionary and unofficial Jacobin
Speaker 1: leader Jean Paul Murran. On July thirteenth, just four days
Speaker 1: before she would be executed for it. Corday had gained
Speaker 1: entrance to Murat's home and stabbed the famous journalist to
Speaker 1: death with a kitchen knife while he soaked in his bathtub.
Speaker 1: Charlotte was not a trained killer, and she wasn't an
Speaker 1: anti revolutionary royalist. Instead, she was a simple follower of
Speaker 1: the more moderate Girondin faction of the revolution. Throughout her trial,
Speaker 1: Charlotte maintained that she acted alone, formulating and executing the
Speaker 1: murder entirely on her own and of her own volition.
Speaker 1: The act of violence and loss of a leader shook
Speaker 1: France at one of its most volatile moments, not only
Speaker 1: sparking further tension among the revolutionary factions, but invoking a
Speaker 1: reckoning regarding the role of women in the revolution and
Speaker 1: in French society at large. Charlotte herself is a controversial
Speaker 1: figure within the revolution and history. That controversy, plus the
Speaker 1: fact that she was a young, beautiful female assassin, has
Speaker 1: only fueled a sense of cultural iconography. Her name and
Speaker 1: image showed up in and within Percy Shelley poems, the
Speaker 1: pages of Les mis rob, a number of works of arts,
Speaker 1: even video games. It seems that Charlotte knew that she
Speaker 1: was destined for infamy, but she may have even shrewdly
Speaker 1: understood before her death that revolutionary leaders would try to
Speaker 1: erase her, and thus she asked to be memorialized before
Speaker 1: her death, immortalized in Pate before Charlotte Corday, the woman
Speaker 1: would dissolve forever into Charlotte Corday, the legend. To understand
Speaker 1: her legacy and her power in death. I think it's
Speaker 1: worth going back and trying to make sense of her life.
Speaker 1: So listeners, allow me to be another Jean Jacques Hower
Speaker 1: and attempt to paint you a portrait. I'm Danish Schwartz,
Speaker 1: and this is noble blood, as is the case for
Speaker 1: most minor country nobles in eighteenth century France. There is
Speaker 1: not an extensive wealth of information surround Charlotte's childhood. We
Speaker 1: know that she was born in Normandy as Marie Anne
Speaker 1: Charlotte de Corde d'Armont, the second of four children, and
Speaker 1: her family was aristocratic but poor. She was a descendant
Speaker 1: of the dramatist Pierre Corne, considered one of the great
Speaker 1: French playwrights of the seventeenth century. Perhaps Charlotte's destiny was
Speaker 1: shaped by her ancestor's love of tragedies. When Charlotte was eight,
Speaker 1: possibly because of the death of her mother, she was
Speaker 1: sent to live with an uncle, an abbot, and she
Speaker 1: became a student at a girls boarding school in a
Speaker 1: port city in northern Normandy. There she received not only
Speaker 1: a religious education but also a secular one, reading the
Speaker 1: Bible and Plutarch alongside each other as well as having
Speaker 1: access to the works of Voltaire, Rousseau and dramatists, including
Speaker 1: her great great grandfather. Charlotte's reading made her, she would
Speaker 1: later claim quote a Republican before the revolution. During her
Speaker 1: eventual trial, she would claim to have read over five
Speaker 1: hundred political texts with both revolutionary and counter revolutionary viewpoints.
Speaker 1: It seems that whatever religious education she got resonated with
Speaker 1: her less than her political education, as there is no
Speaker 1: mention of God in any of her writings. Anyway, In
Speaker 1: seventeen ninety one, the school was closed due to revolutionary pressures,
Speaker 1: and Charlotte moved in with a cousin. It was during
Speaker 1: this time that she began to go to political meetings
Speaker 1: and was particularly inspired by the ideas of the Girondin faction.
Speaker 1: The Girondin were a more moderate political offshoot of the
Speaker 1: more extreme Jacobins. The Girondin were the leading voice in
Speaker 1: the revolution up until an insurrection in May seven ninety
Speaker 1: three headed by one Jean Paul Murran. What had happened
Speaker 1: was a number of Girondin representatives had voted against the
Speaker 1: execution of the king, which was seen as inherently anti
Speaker 1: revolutionary because of a number of economic and political Girondin failures.
Speaker 1: Murrah was able to rally the support of the people,
Speaker 1: and forty thousand men showed up to demand the arrests
Speaker 1: of the representatives. Twenty two Girondin ended up under the
Speaker 1: blade of the guillotine, and that event is considered by
Speaker 1: many historians to be the starting point of a violent
Speaker 1: period referred to as the Reign of Terror. Many of
Speaker 1: the Girondin who escaped the fate of their colleagues fled
Speaker 1: to Normandy, where they attempted to gather enough support to
Speaker 1: challenge Mirah and his followers. The Girondin found perhaps more
Speaker 1: support than they had envisioned, in Charlotte Corday. Charlotte believed
Speaker 1: that the Girondin would save France and decided that she
Speaker 1: could save the Girondin. It was simple, really, all she
Speaker 1: would have to do is kill their most prominent enemy.
Speaker 1: In the spring of seventeen ninety three, Charlotte procured a passport,
Speaker 1: as required by all travelers by the Revolutionary Authority. From
Speaker 1: this passport we know a number of small details about Charlotte.
Speaker 1: She was five foot six, her hair was brown, and
Speaker 1: her eyes were gray. The lack of a pandy photo
Speaker 1: ID also meant that her passport had a detailed description
Speaker 1: of her appearance quote fourhead, high nose, long mouth, medium
Speaker 1: size chin, round, with her forehead held high. Apparently, Charlotte
Speaker 1: first used this passport on July ninth to board a
Speaker 1: carriage to Paris. It would be a two day ride,
Speaker 1: and three days after she arrived would be July fourteenth,
Speaker 1: the four year anniversary of the storming of the Bastille.
Speaker 1: It would be on that day Charlotte decided that she
Speaker 1: would execute Jean Palmurra in an act of spectacle as
Speaker 1: he spoke to the public during the festivities. It was
Speaker 1: to be bold and symbolic, snuffing out what she saw
Speaker 1: as the evil at the heart of the current revolution
Speaker 1: in order to usher in a new era of revolutionary prosperity,
Speaker 1: and it would happen on the anniversary of a day
Speaker 1: that represented it all. It was only when Charlotte arrived
Speaker 1: in Paris on July eleventh, however, that she learned Morale
Speaker 1: would not be attending the festivities. In fact, he wouldn't
Speaker 1: be leaving his house at all. Jean Palmarrat came from
Speaker 1: a modest background but as a teenager he was inspired
Speaker 1: by his highly educated father to pursue his own education.
Speaker 1: His Wikipedia and Tree contained the puzzling a sentence. He
Speaker 1: worked informally as a doctor, which more precisely means that
Speaker 1: he received a medical education, but he had no formal qualifications.
Speaker 1: When he wasn't busy being a casually practicing doctor, he
Speaker 1: became more interested in politics, and he began to publish
Speaker 1: both political and medical papers during his time he spent
Speaker 1: living in England. Following the fall of the Bastille, he
Speaker 1: founded his newspaper The Friend of the People, which published
Speaker 1: attacks on authoritative groups and figures from Louis the sixteenth
Speaker 1: ministers to leaders within the Revolution that Mara considered too conservative.
Speaker 1: The paper's main focus was investigating those that Marah believed
Speaker 1: to be quote counter revolutionary. Did not make Mara a
Speaker 1: popular figure among those in power, and he was often persecuted,
Speaker 1: having to spend time hiding out in the Paris sewers.
Speaker 1: On more than one occasion, Charlotte blamed Marah and The
Speaker 1: Friend of the People for the September massacres of seventeen
Speaker 1: ninety two, a mass killing of prisoners by armed civilians
Speaker 1: based on the idea that the prisoners were planning to
Speaker 1: rise up in their jail as a counter revolutionary plot.
Speaker 1: The aftermath of the massacre found Mara elected to the
Speaker 1: National Convention, and, following the fall of the Girandin, Mara
Speaker 1: was one of the most prominent leaders of the revolution.
Speaker 1: His zealotry was growing so intense, however, that even some
Speaker 1: of his colleagues and supporters were beginning to grow tense.
Speaker 1: As Mara's influence grew, his health declined. At fifty years old,
Speaker 1: he had been sick for many years with a skin disorder. Perhaps,
Speaker 1: and this is my informal medical guess, not helped by
Speaker 1: all the time he spent in the sewers, Morale was
Speaker 1: not bedridden, but rather bath ridden. His painful dermatitis was
Speaker 1: only soothed by a vinegar concoction that he bathed in,
Speaker 1: so he resigned to conducting his business from his tub,
Speaker 1: answering letters and conducting meetings while soaking for hours at
Speaker 1: a time. With this knowledge, Charlotte Corday spent the day
Speaker 1: of July twelfth formulating a new plan for her assassination.
Speaker 1: Early the next morning, she walked to the Palais Royal
Speaker 1: and purchased an ebony handled kitchen knife in a cardboard
Speaker 1: sheath from a cutlery shop. She paid forty sous, which
Speaker 1: were small coins worth one twentieth of the leaf. She
Speaker 1: first attempted to ask to see Marit in person, but
Speaker 1: she was turned away at the door with the insistence
Speaker 1: that he was too sick for visitors. She tried again
Speaker 1: later and received the same response. Pivoting strategy, she decided
Speaker 1: to send a note instead, claiming that she had information
Speaker 1: regarding the counter revolutionary activity in the city of ken
Speaker 1: in Normandy. Quote. My great unhappiness is enough for me
Speaker 1: to have a right to your good will, she wrote.
Speaker 1: In her note, she would apologize for her deceit in
Speaker 1: gaining entry during her trial, but counteract that apology with
Speaker 1: her claim that tyrants do not deserve the truth. While
Speaker 1: Charlotte waited for a response, the story goes that she
Speaker 1: had her hair curled and powdered by the neighborhood coiffure.
Speaker 1: She got dressed for the meeting, putting on a fancy dress,
Speaker 1: a black hat with green ribbons, a pink so garf,
Speaker 1: and long gloves into her bodice. She stuffed a written
Speaker 1: address she had composed the night before, in which she
Speaker 1: calls upon the people of France to kill Mara in
Speaker 1: the case that she failed. In the note, she quoted
Speaker 1: Voltaire's LaMonte to Caesar, citing Brutus's belief that killing Caesar
Speaker 1: was his duty. Charlotte also wrote that if she did succeed,
Speaker 1: she believed that you would die nearly instantly at the
Speaker 1: hands of Mara's supporters. Is that why she had her
Speaker 1: hair done and dressed in her best clothes, or was
Speaker 1: it an attempt to present herself favorably as she sought
Speaker 1: an audience. Maybe she was simply anxious and killing time.
Speaker 1: Or maybe, as is theorized in the article The Blonding
Speaker 1: of Charlotte Corday, the story of the hairdresser is a
Speaker 1: complete fabrication on the part of Mara's supporters that emerged
Speaker 1: after Charlotte's death. Powdering one's hair was seen by many
Speaker 1: as an indulgent practice, and a pompous aristocrat would be
Speaker 1: an easy villain to rally against. No matter what Charlotte
Speaker 1: was wearing or the true state of her hair, we
Speaker 1: know that, in addition to the letter for the people,
Speaker 1: she also carried on her person copies of articles from
Speaker 1: her hometown newspaper and another note for Mara in case
Speaker 1: her first flattering letter to him hadn't gotten his attention.
Speaker 1: There was, also, of course, the kitchen knife. That evening,
Speaker 1: still having heard no news, she once again appeared on
Speaker 1: Mara's doorstep. This time she was turned away by his
Speaker 1: common law wife, Simone, but when Charlotte loudly asked if
Speaker 1: Mara had received her patriotic note, he overheard and permitted
Speaker 1: her entrance. He was apparently planning to focus the next
Speaker 1: issue of his newspaper paper on the Girondin in Kin
Speaker 1: and wanted Charlotte first hand account of the situation in Normandy.
Speaker 1: He received her in the bathtub, soaking in vinegar, and
Speaker 1: I assume naked. It was almost too easy, but Charlotte
Speaker 1: didn't make her move right away. She instead sat with
Speaker 1: him for fifteen minutes, providing him information on the fugitives
Speaker 1: in Ken while he took notes. Mara's wife and her
Speaker 1: sister were both apparently suspicious of Corday, and they listened
Speaker 1: at the door as the pair spoke, sometimes making an
Speaker 1: excuse to quickly pop into the room. When Charlotte finished
Speaker 1: her story, Mara vowed that the Girondin would be guillotined.
Speaker 1: With that, Charlotte stood up and with one sudden move,
Speaker 1: plunged her knife into his torso, penetrating a lung in
Speaker 1: the corroded artery. Mara called out to his wife standing
Speaker 1: in the hallway, help me, my love, but it was
Speaker 1: too late. He died almost instantly, and Charlotte was arrested
Speaker 1: almost as quickly after. She was seized by Simone and
Speaker 1: a collection of neighbors. She didn't resist, There was no debate.
Speaker 1: It was Corday in the bathroom with the kitchen knife.
Speaker 1: Charlotte would be imprisoned for four days, during which time
Speaker 1: an elaborate funeral was held for Mara, and investigators sought
Speaker 1: to uncover a larger Girondin plot. Charlotte spent her remaining
Speaker 1: days writing letters, which were addressed to friends and family,
Speaker 1: but seemed to speak as well to the public at large.
Speaker 1: Her trial was held on the seventeenth of July and
Speaker 1: was dominated by attempts to find her supposed co conspirators.
Speaker 1: The problem there just weren't any, but the men of
Speaker 1: the Revolutionary Tribunal just didn't believe that a young woman
Speaker 1: would be capable of formulating and executing such an important
Speaker 1: act alone. When the prosecutor insisted that Charlotte must have
Speaker 1: practiced in order to kill with one blow, Charlotte exclaimed,
Speaker 1: oh the monster. He takes me for an assassin. She
Speaker 1: owed the precise strike only to luck. She similarly maintained
Speaker 1: that she alone conceived of and acted on her plan,
Speaker 1: despite the fact that they found no evidence to contradict
Speaker 1: her statement. A number of Girondin who moved in similar
Speaker 1: circles as Charlotte were arrested. One letter that Charlotte had
Speaker 1: written to her father during her brief stay in prison
Speaker 1: was intercepted and read during the trial. Quote, forgive me,
Speaker 1: my dear Papa, for having disposed of my existence without
Speaker 1: your permission. I have avenged many innocent victims. I have
Speaker 1: prevented many other disasters. The people one day disillusioned will
Speaker 1: rejoice in being delivered from a tyrant. If I tried
Speaker 1: to persuade you that I was passing through England, it
Speaker 1: was because I hoped to keep it incognito, but I
Speaker 1: recognized the impossibility. I hope you will not be tormented
Speaker 1: in any case. I believe that you would have defenders
Speaker 1: in ken. Good Bye, my dear Papa. Please forgive me,
Speaker 1: or rather rejoice in my fate. The cause is good.
Speaker 1: I kiss my sister, whom I love with all my heart,
Speaker 1: as well as all my parents. Do not forget this
Speaker 1: verse by Cornille. Crime brings shame, not the scaffold. It
Speaker 1: is tomorrow at eight o'clock that I am judged. This
Speaker 1: is sixteen July. She was in fact judged the next
Speaker 1: morning and found guilty. Bringing us back to the opening
Speaker 1: of our story, Charlotte was calm as her portrait was
Speaker 1: painted and dignified as she approached the guillotine. Despite Charlotte's
Speaker 1: hopes the people had rallied against the Girondin, it seemed
Speaker 1: as though Charlotte Corday had doomed their cause by giving
Speaker 1: their enemies a martyr. A fellow Girondin was present at
Speaker 1: the execution. He remarked, she is killing us, but she
Speaker 1: is teaching us how to die. The guillotine blade came down,
Speaker 1: and a man often identified as an assistant of the executioner,
Speaker 1: lifted Charlotte's head and slapped its cheek. According to Albert
Speaker 1: Camu in Reflections on the Guillotine, quote, Charlotte Corday's severed
Speaker 1: head blushed, it is said under the executioner's slap. It
Speaker 1: seems Charlotte was conscious of her image even after the end.
Speaker 1: In one of her last letters to a friend, she
Speaker 1: had written, it is the last act that crowned the
Speaker 1: work the executioner. Samson, distancing himself from an act that
Speaker 1: even he believed to be too vulgar, claimed that the
Speaker 1: man who had slapped Charlotte's face was not one of
Speaker 1: his assistants, but just a carpenter who had been hired
Speaker 1: to make repairs to the guillotine. It said that following
Speaker 1: her execution, Charlotte's headless body was autopsied to see if
Speaker 1: she was a virgin. Jacobin leaders still believed that she
Speaker 1: could not possibly have worked alone, and speculated that she
Speaker 1: was perhaps the mistress of a co conspirator. To their disappointment,
Speaker 1: she was, in fact, quote found to be a virgin,
Speaker 1: at least according to the very limited medical beliefs and
Speaker 1: understanding of the construct of virginity at that time. In
Speaker 1: the aftermath of her death, which Charlotte saw as an
Speaker 1: act that would save France, did not have the effect
Speaker 1: she envisioned. The Jacobin only grew in power. Marat's paranoia
Speaker 1: about dangerous counter revolutionaries was seemingly validated when he let
Speaker 1: one into his home. In killing Mara, Charlotte created a martyr.
Speaker 1: A bust of Maraw quickly replaced a religious statue on
Speaker 1: one street in Paris. Charlotte's own image, which she seemingly
Speaker 1: sought to preserve through portraiture and her letters, was often shunned.
Speaker 1: The famous painting Death of Mara by the deceased's good
Speaker 1: friend Jacques Louis da Vide hangs to day in the Louver.
Speaker 1: In that famous work, we see Mara as a christ
Speaker 1: like figure in the bath, with one arm gracefully falling
Speaker 1: over the edge of his tub, a pose which mirrors
Speaker 1: that of Jesus in Caravaggio's The Intubement of Christ or
Speaker 1: Michelangelo's version of Jesus in The Pieta. It's an idealized
Speaker 1: portrayal of the man. His famously diseased skin is clear,
Speaker 1: with the exception of the knife sized hole in his
Speaker 1: chest dripping crimson. Where is Charlotte, though in Davide's portrait
Speaker 1: she is only present in the note that Marat holds
Speaker 1: an indictment of her guilt. David feared that the presence
Speaker 1: of a pretty young woman in the portrait would attract
Speaker 1: sympathy on her behalf. Jacobin leaders harbored the same fears,
Speaker 1: and they published a text that circulated across Paris. Quote,
Speaker 1: this woman being called pretty was not pretty at all.
Speaker 1: She was a virago, chubby rather than fresh, slovenly, as
Speaker 1: female philosophers and sharp thinkers almost always are. Moreover, this
Speaker 1: remark would be pointless were it not generally true that
Speaker 1: any pretty woman who enjoys being pretty clings to life
Speaker 1: and fear's death. Her head was stuffed with all sorts
Speaker 1: of books, she declared, or rather she confessed with an
Speaker 1: affectation bordering on the ridiculous, that she had read everything
Speaker 1: from Tacitus to the Portier de Chatreux. All these things
Speaker 1: mean that this woman had hurled herself completely outside of
Speaker 1: her sex. End quote. In his own writing previous Noble
Speaker 1: Blood subject, the Marquis de Sade claimed, quote Murat's barbarous assassin,
Speaker 1: like those mixed beings whose sex is impossible to determine,
Speaker 1: vomited up from hell to the despair of both sexes,
Speaker 1: directly belongs to neither. It's funny. In a way, Charlotte
Speaker 1: would be villainized for a crime that some actually saw
Speaker 1: as a greater sin than murder, transgressing her sex. She
Speaker 1: understood that that would be her fate, writing quote, no
Speaker 1: one is satisfied to have a mere woman without consequence
Speaker 1: to offer to the spirit of that great man. Among
Speaker 1: revolutionary women, many denounced Charlotte on grounds of their love
Speaker 1: for Mara, who they saw as sympathetic to their unique plight,
Speaker 1: while many other women men simply distanced themselves out of
Speaker 1: a fear of a growing backlash against women at large.
Speaker 1: In the end, however, it was Charlotte who saved herself
Speaker 1: in the eyes of the public, at least in the
Speaker 1: long term. Her portrait successfully preserved her image in the
Speaker 1: face of many attempts to erase and deform it. In
Speaker 1: their collection, the met houses a print of the painting,
Speaker 1: first shown at the Royal Academy of Arts in London
Speaker 1: in eighteen sixty three, nearly a century after charlotte execution.
Speaker 1: In the painting, she is portrayed with beautiful, flowing curls
Speaker 1: which are about to be chopped by the executioner as
Speaker 1: she sat for the final portrait, her calm gaze is
Speaker 1: a clear appeal for sympathy, just as David had correctly feared.
Speaker 1: She was also eventually given the feminized nickname that she
Speaker 1: is now associated with the Angel of Assassination. It's a
Speaker 1: double edged sword, her sympathy as a figure in popular
Speaker 1: culture being rooted in her youth and beauty, her being
Speaker 1: a woman, and her villainization rooted in the erasure of
Speaker 1: the feminine, both obscuring the nature of the crime itself.
Speaker 1: It was not a crime of passion. It was a
Speaker 1: crime of philosophy. Charlotte Corday had not killed Mara because
Speaker 1: she was a woman. She had killed him because she
Speaker 1: thought she was doing the right thing. You can't control
Speaker 1: how you'll be remembered, but Charlotte did her best to try.
Speaker 1: Modern judith or wicked, she devil. Charlotte Corday's place in
Speaker 1: history and culture is secure. That's the story of Charlotte
Speaker 1: Corday's famous assassination. But keep listening. After a brief sponsor
Speaker 1: break for a very fun noble blood cameo. While David
Speaker 1: sought to erase Corday among his circle, the Angel of
Speaker 1: Assassination had one artistic admirer who sought to preserve her
Speaker 1: in a rather literal way. She was a woman of
Speaker 1: similar age, then known as Marie Groscholtz, but more famously
Speaker 1: known today as Madame Tousseaud, still an apprentice at the
Speaker 1: time of the wax modeler Philippe Cusius, she sent her
Speaker 1: at the behest of David to take a cast of
Speaker 1: the newly deceased Mara. On the night of his murder,
Speaker 1: she caught a glimpse of Corday as she was ushered
Speaker 1: out of Mara's home, and she went to see her
Speaker 1: in her cell. During her imprisonment, Madame Tousseau would cast
Speaker 1: a death mask of Charlotte's severed head, as she would
Speaker 1: four others on the receiving end of the guillotine. The
Speaker 1: result ended up being a wax tableau of Mara with
Speaker 1: Corday beside him, staged as the murder happened. The display
Speaker 1: drew huge crowds, all of whom would have to look
Speaker 1: upon both parties and determine where their loyalties lie. If
Speaker 1: you've been a very very long time listener of this podcast,
Speaker 1: you might recall that in our very first episode I
Speaker 1: talked in the epilogue about Madame Tussaud also being on
Speaker 1: hand to sculpt a death mask of a woman who
Speaker 1: would be guillotined just a few short months after Charlotte
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