However, it was this weak girl who thought that killing one person could save a group of people. One day in July of 1793, 13, she dressed up and went into Mara's house with a dagger hidden inside, and stabbed him in the heart.
This is one of thousands of killings in the terrible years of the French Revolution. Mara, the deceased, was the leader of the Revolutionary Committee of the terrorist organization, the idol of the revolutionary masses, an ugly thug and a murderous demon. At his instigation, thousands of people were executed without trial, but he still enjoys a respected position and great prestige. After Charlotte assassinated him in the name of peace, he was once buried in the Pantheon, which represented the highest honor, and was worshipped.
But in the eyes of Charlotte, a beautiful country girl, Mara is the root of all evil: the Holocaust was his masterpiece and the king died at his hands. Even the situation that gironde was completely hunted down was caused by Mara. So when people trembled for Mara's strength, she planned to kill him.
The descendant of the fallen aristocrat and a girl who grew up in a monastery have been enjoying her unknown youth in the small town of Kang En. If the revolution didn't break out, she might get married like an aunt, inherit a small fortune, live a stable life, or read books in the library occasionally. But the revolution changed her, and she became a pacifist. She doesn't like kings, much less violence. She just wants to pursue moderate peace. This dream was shattered when Gironde, who advocated moderation, failed.
It is said that it took her five days at most to make an assassination plan, perhaps because she listened to the speech of gironde exiles. She took a comparative biography of Greek and Roman celebrities and boarded the carriage to Paris. No one even came to see her off before she left. She spent a few days dealing with trivial matters and wrote a letter explaining why she wanted to kill Mara. She bought a 5 cm long wooden handle knife. He also inspected the meeting place of the National Association.
The night before the assassination, she told a gironde who had taken care of her for several days to leave Paris. "It's too late." When the other party didn't understand her, she cried and begged him, but it didn't help.
After everything was ready, a day in history came. In the evening, Charlotte came to Mara's apartment. After many twists and turns, she met the big man who was soaked in the bathtub because of skin disease. She provided Mara with more than a dozen names of "counter-revolutionaries" in gironde, and Mara wrote them down one by one, and promised to guillotine them soon. Hearing this, she killed Mara with that knife.
Mara, who devoted herself to assassination and conspiracy, probably didn't expect that she would eventually die in a murder without trial. Charlotte, who hoped to exchange violence for peace, made herself stand among the people she hated most through this murder.
Like Charlotte, Mara and his accomplices commit violence with lofty goals. They claimed that killing people was to save the happiness of the country and people. Even they killed King Louis XVI of France for the same reason that Charlotte killed Mara: killing one person can save thousands of people.
It is not just Mara or anyone else who brings misfortune to France, but politics that tramples on the law and massacres without trial. Charlotte killed Mara, but made this history even bloodier. She killed the damn man, but she did it in the wrong way-for the right purpose, the result would be tragic. This is a lesson left by the French Revolution.
However, after killing Mara, Charlotte should be satisfied. She sat quietly, waiting for people to arrest her. She was beaten black and blue, her bra was torn and her hands were covered with wounds. However, in the face of the trial, she has been smiling proudly. It is said that she even hoped that when people in Paris saw her hanged in public, they would remember that she had shed blood for them.
This is just an illusion. People held a grand funeral for Mara and cursed the brave murderer angrily. Mara has been touted for a long time in history, but she has been denounced as a killer.
After learning that she was sentenced to death, she experienced a brief panic, but then she calmed down and calmly walked to the execution ground. It is said that out of sympathy, the executioner deliberately stood in front of her, not letting her see the guillotine, but she let her have a look, because she had never seen it before.
This last calm has won her the respect of many people. A gironde man who was executed because of Charlotte's involvement said before she died that she had killed us and taught us how to die.