FERNAND RUMÈBE (1875-1952) FAIENCE FRENCH REVOLUTION PLATE, "CHARLOTTE CORDAY"

ANTIQUE FERNAND RUMˆBE (1875-1952) FAIENCE FRENCH REVOLUTION PLATE, 9 1/2" DIAM, PORTRAIT ARMORIAL HERALDRY, "CHARLOTTE CORDAY", Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont (27 July 1768 “ 17 July 1793), known as Charlotte Corday was a figure of the FRENCH REVOLUTION In 1793, she was executed by GUILLOTINE for the assassination of JACOBIN leader JEAN PAUL MARAT, who was in part responsible for the more radical course the Revolution had taken through his role as a politician and journalist. Marat had played a substantial role in the political purge of the GIRONDINS, with whom Corday sympathized. His murder was memorialized in the painting THE DEATH OF MARAT by JACQUES LOUIS DAVID, which shows Marat's dead body after Corday stabbed him in his medicinal bath. In 1847, writer ALFONSE DE LAMARTINE gave Corday the posthumous nickname l'ange de l'assassinat (the Angel of Assassination). IT HAS SCRATCHES AND UNDERGLAZE LALSO THERE IS A HAIRLINE ON BACK SHOWN IN PICTURE, INES COMMENSURATE WITH AGE, PLATE HAS THE INITIALS "RF" MAY BE THE ARTIST