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Normandy fights Paris over letter about Revolution-era murder

Officials representing the Normandy region are locked in a legal battle with the culture ministry in Paris over which of them has the right to a letter written in 1793, four years after the French Revolution, by Charlotte Corday, 24, explaining why she was about to murder Jean-Paul Marat, 50, a radical faction leader who she stabbed to death in his bath.

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French officials are fighting for possession of a 1793 manifesto by a woman justifying her decision to stab a revolutionary leader to death, with local authorities saying they will take the case to court, reports The Guardian.

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