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Charlotte Corday, engraving by É.-L. Baudran after a portrait by J.-J.
Hauer. [Credit: Courtesy of the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris]
(born July 27, 1768, Saint-Saturnin, near Séez, Normandy, France—died July 17, 1793, Paris) French political activist. A noblewoman from Caen, she moved to Paris to work for the
Girondin cause in the
French Revolution. Horrified at the excesses of the
Reign of Terror, she sought an interview with
Jean-Paul Marat, one of its leaders. On July 13, 1793, she stabbed him through the heart while he was in his bath. Arrested on the spot, she was convicted by the Revolutionary Tribunal and guillotined.
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