Charlotte Corday
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Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont, known as Charlotte Corday, was a figure of the French Revolution who assassinated revolutionary and Jacobin leader Jean-Paul Marat on 13 July 1793. Corday was
The house in Normandy where Corday was born
Charlotte Corday à Caen en 1793 by Tony Robert-Fleury
The Death of Marat by Guillaume-Joseph Roques (1793); a knife lies on the floor at lower left in the paintings by Roques and David
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David (1793)
Jean-Paul Marat
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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, a
Charlotte Corday
…1768 – 17 July 1793), known as Charlotte Corday (French: ), was a figure of the French Revolution who assassinated revolutionary and Jacobin leader Jean-Paul Marat on 13 July 1793. Corday was an aristocratic sympathiser of the Girondins, a moderate faction of French revolutionaries in opposition to the more extremist…
Portrait by Joseph Boze, 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)