July 13, 2006
Gratuitous Mayfair Posting
Basil Seal reminds us that on this date in 1793, French Revolutionary writer Jacobin swine Jean-Paul Marat was stabbed in his bath by Charlotte Corday.
You P.G. Wodehouse enthusiasts out there might remember that Bertie Wooster's friend Bingo Little went through a short infatuation with a woman named Charlotte Corday Rowbotham, the daughter of a Hyde Park Corner radical. While Plum generally stayed out of politics in his writing, in this story he took the time to gently poke fun at the Socialists of the time. Wild-eyed rhetoric and false beards are involved.
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