Clémentine Portier-Kaltenbach 4:45 p.m., March 10, 2022
On July 17, 1793, Charlotte Corday (1768-1793) was taken to the scaffold after having assassinated the mountain deputy Jean-Paul Marat (1743-1793), at her Parisian home at n°30 rue des Cordeliers.
As the guillotine fell in front of the crowd gathered on the Place de la Révolution, the head of the young Norman began a curious journey that would take her to the windows of the Universal Exhibition of 1889....
To go further, read
History of bones: selected pieces from the history of France
, by Clémentine-Portier Kaltenbach, available from Pluriel editions