Letter from Charlotte Corday: the Normandy area wins the sale at 270,900 euros

The sales were very controversial. What's more, it was to the Normandy area that Charlotte Corday's letter was sold for 270,900 euros during the offer of the Osenat house, this Sunday in Versailles. At 24, this youthful Norman turned into a figure in the French Transformation by killing Marat in July 1793 in Paris. She related her motion in a manually written letter tracked down on her before her execution. A one of a kind piece more than 230 years of age.

"It's an excellent deal, which endured over ten minutes, says the Osenat deals director. It's a ton. Normally it just endures a couple of moments all things considered. There were no less than three members on the web and on the telephone. The sales are very much mounted and rapidly. »

The deal cost incredibly surpasses the assessments

The last cost incredibly surpasses the assessments of the salesperson, Jean-Pierre Osenat, who set its worth somewhere in the range of 80,000 and 100,000 euros. Potential purchasers began offering from 70,000 preceding the offering soar.

Thusly the Normandy area will before long recuperate the notable letter. Charlotte Corday, from an honorable family without riches and a relative of Pierre Corneille, has for sure carried on with a huge piece of her life there. What's more, it is at the noteworthy base camp of the Locale, in Caen in Calvados, in the previous Abbaye aux Ladies, where she, at the end of the day, entered in 1782 at 13 years old, that her political will ought to be uncovered.

In this note composed on July 12, 1793, the young lady, who had gone to Paris to carry out a homicide, made sense of her activity "for the sake of regard for the law and common harmony". Also, makes a move the following day: she purchases a midnight blade that she conceals in her bodice, enters the specialist columnist Jean-Pierre Marat, pioneer behind the political paper "l'Ami du peuple" and kills him. in his shower. She will then be captured, detained, condemned to death by the progressive court and guillotined on July 17, 1793.