Charlotte Corday
Deceased Person
1768 – 1793
Who was Charlotte Corday?
Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont, known to history as Charlotte Corday, was a figure of the French Revolution. In 1793, she was executed under the guillotine for the assassination of Jacobin leader Jean-Paul 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 Jacques-Louis 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 l'ange de l'assassinat.
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- Born
- Jul 27, 1768
Écorches - Religion
- Catholicism
- Lived in
- Lower Normandy
- Died
- Jul 17, 1793
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on July 23, 2013
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