Abstract
Not many people were tried on five different occasions during the French revolutionary Terror and lived to tell the tale. Alexandre Rousselin was probably the only one who went on to become a count. As Jeff Horn reveals at the beginning of this fast-paced biography, he also became the owner of the skull of Charlotte Corday, the woman who murdered Jean-Paul Marat in his bath in 1793. In later life he sometimes invited favoured guests to reminisce about those dangerous and unpredictable times in the veiled presence of her skull. Rousselin not only had an eye for unusual memorabilia but also, as Horn shows, an eye for the main chance. The two traits were, in fact, quite closely connected, because Rousselin probably obtained the skull when he was secretary to Georges Danton, Minister of the Interior at the time of Marat’s assassination. It was a position that marked the high...
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