Charlotte Corday

MarieAnne Charlotte de Corday dArmont , known to history as Charlotte Corday , was a figure of the French Revolution. In 1793, she was executed by guillotine for the assassination of Jacobin leader JeanPaul Marat, who was in part responsible, through his role as a politician and journalist, for the more radical course the Revolution had taken. More specifically, he played a substantial role in the political purge of the Girondins, with whom Corday sympathized. His murder was memorialized in a celebrated painting by JacquesLouis David which shows Marat after Corday had stabbed him to death in his bathtub. In 1847, writer Alphonse de Lamartine gave Corday the posthumous nickname lange de lassassinat .

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