Charlotte Corday
1768–1793
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- aristocrat
Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont (27 July 1768 â 17 July 1793), known as Charlotte Corday (French: [kÉÊdÉ]), was a figure of the French Revolution who assassinated revolutionary and Jacobin leader Jean-Paul Marat on 13 July 1793.
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- Prison de l'AbbayeDates unknown
Biography
Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont (27 July 1768 â 17 July 1793), known as Charlotte Corday (French: [kÉÊdÉ]), was a figure of the French Revolution who assassinated revolutionary and Jacobin leader Jean-Paul Marat on 13 July 1793. Corday was a sympathiser of the Girondins, a moderate faction of French revolutionaries in opposition to the Jacobins. She held Marat responsible for the September Massacres of 1792 and, believing that the Revolution was in jeopardy from the more radical course the Jacobins had taken, she decided to assassinate Marat. On 13 July 1793, having travelled to Paris and obtained an audience with Marat, Corday fatally stabbed him with a knife while he was taking a medicinal bath. Marat's assassination was memorialised in the painting The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David. Corday was immediately arrested, found guilty by the Revolutionary Tribunal and on 17 July, four days after Marat's death, executed by the guillotine on the Place de Grève. In 1847, writer Alphonse de Lamartine gave Corday the posthumous nickname l'ange de l'assassinat (the Angel of Assassination).
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