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When Charlotte Corday stormed into Jean Paul Marat's bathroom in 1793, he was in his high, churnlike tub and she stabbed him to the heart. When Siamese soldiers and sailors stormed last week into King Prajadhipok's Bangkok bathroom (see p. 18), made by Standard Sanitary Manufacturing Co., the big U. S. bathtub was empty...
...fire which damaged the Eden Musee,- famed waxworks at Coney Island (N. Y.), funpark, figures of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, James John Walker, Leon Trotsky, John Joseph Pershing, Gaius Julius Caesar, Decimus Junius Brutus, Jean Paul Marat & tub, Henry VIII, Mr. & Mrs. Tom Thumb were melted out of existence. Others who suffered: George Washington (broken nose), Booker Taliaferro Washington (complexion blackened), Charlotte Corday (loss of eyes), Marie Antoinette (decapitated). A fireman was injured, a dog shot, a cat burned to death. Rescued were Watchman Conrad Golly and eight Japanese billiardists...
...strong but not violent republicanism caused him to be elected to the September 1792 Convention. The next year, he voted for the death of Louis XVI. Later he became President of the Convention, found French inspiration for his pictures of historic catastrophes- Last Moments of Lepelletier de Saint-Farceau, Marat Assassinated. When Napoleon became Emperor. Painter David portrayed him seated on a fiery horse, pointing the road to Italy...
...horizon. According to a recent dispatch to the New York Herald Tribune, an American connoisseur of art has carried from the shores of France no less than a historic relic of primary importance, a monument to French Democracy--in fact, the very bath tub in which the great Marat was stabbed by Charlotte Corday. This new fad of Americans no longer to confine themselves to purely artistic objects and to enter the field of historic memorials has caused the fellow countrymen of Watteau and Monet to rise in righteous anger to defend their national treasures. At present, their efforts have...
...case has taken an unusual turn in that the Grevin Wax Works insist that they possess the only tub in which M. Marat died. They therefore demand that the American disclaim the authenticity of his possession and regard it merely as an eighteenth century bathing device. This the American will not do, for not only has he paid four hundred dollars for his treasure, but also he owns the keys to the room in which the relic was installed. Besides, as the efficiency of such an appliance can in no way compare with that of the creations of today...