Marie-Anne-Charlotte Corday now leaves her hotel for some shopping. If you follow Vieux Augustins towards the river, to the right in this case, you see Place des Victoire. Carry through la place from 10 to 4 and you, as she would have, find yourself at the Palais Royal. Built by Orleans as a real estate project, its arcades house shops, cafes and places of entertainment. It was here that Desmoulins leapt into the Public Eye earlier in the Revolutionary era. Charlotte enters the galerie de Valois; and finds the boutique of the coutelier Badin at number 177. She shops for a knife. A kitchen knife with an ebony handle and a 6 inch sliver blade catches her eye and she purchases it for 40 sous. She carries it away. Later, she meets with Duperret, using her letter of introduction from Barbaroux. ( I wonder if there is a regional thing going on here. Marat was from Neufchatel, now in Switzerland and the Girondists were both from the Midi, Duperret from Cevannes and Barbaroux from Marsailles.) Duperret informs Charlotte that Marat no longer attends sessions of the national Assembly, which now meets in the theater of the Tuilleries, not the Menage. His health is such, that he stays in his house on r. des Cordeliers. If she is to meet him, she must go to him there.
Posted on: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 10:05:44 +0000
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