THE ANGEL OF THE ASSASSINATION. Marie-Charlotte De Corday D'Armont, Jean-Paul Marat, Jean-Adam Lux a Study of Three Disciples of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Hardback. An account of the life of the woman known as Charlotte de Corday, with which are interwoven the lives of the man she killed and the man who died for championing her memory. Jean-Paul Marat had never heard of Charlotte de Corday when she entered his presence on July 13, 1793. Jean-Adam Lux had never heard of Charlotte de Corday until she had only a few days to live; he never saw her until she was on her way to death. Jean-Jacques Rousseau's teachings inflamed, exalted and brought together these 3 people of different races, to their destruction and their immortality. The Sardinian French cosmopolitan, the pure-bred Norman, the German from Mayence, had each in several ways and according to a peculiar temperament, imbibed the doctines of Rousseau, and the two latter had brooded long and deeply over the book that had been the inspiration of the Genevan watchmaker's son - 'Plutarch's Lives of Illustrious Men.' Illus., Chronological Table + Bibliog. 336pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate, plus that of a previous owner. With name and address insc. to fep 'Flora Robson'. Lightly foxed, browned edges, sunned sp. Nr. Vg. A fairly heavy book which may require additional postage.