Charlotte Corday

Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont (July 27, 1768 – July 17, 1793), known as Charlotte Corday, is a figure of the French Revolution.

In 1793, she is 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 sympathizes.

His murder is 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 Alphonse de Lamartine will give Corday the posthumous nickname l'ange de l'assassinat (the Angel of Assassination).

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