Charlotte Corday
Videos
Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont, known simply as Charlotte Corday, was a figure of the French Revolution who assassinated revolutionary and Jacobin leader Jean-Paul Marat on 13 July 1793.
The house in Normandy where Corday was born
Charlotte Corday à Caen en 1793 by Tony Robert-Fleury, Musée Bonnat-Helleu
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David (1793)
Charlotte Corday (c. 1860), Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes
Jean-Paul Marat
Videos
Jean-Paul Marat was a French political theorist, physician, and scientist. A journalist and politician during the French Revolution, he was a vigorous defender of the sans-culottes, a radical voice, and published his views in pamphlets, placards and newspapers. His periodical L'Ami du peuple made him an unofficial link with the radical Jacobin group that came to power after June 1793.
Commemorative plaque on the house where Marat was born, in Boudry in Switzerland
Marat by Jean-François Garneray
Anonymous portrait of Marat, c. 1793 (Musée Carnavalet)