Foolish child! Did she think to slay the monster devouring Paris by cutting off one of his heads?
The death of Marat only added to the fury of the tempest, and the falling of Charlotte Corday's head was not more noticed than the falling of a leaf in the forest.
The slaughter of the people had been reduced to an admirable system.
The public prosecutor, Fouquier-Tinville, went every day to the "Committee of Public Safety" to procure the list of the proscribed, who were immediately placed in the Conciergerie to await trial.

This list was then submitted to Robespierre, who with his pencil marked the names of those who would be executed on the morrow.
The mockery of the trial of Charlotte Corday was not delayed.

This girl belonged to a family of the smaller nobility.

In her secluded life in the country, a mind of superior quality had fed upon the new philosophy of the period.

An enthusiasm for liberty, and a horror of tyranny, had taken possession of her.