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Corday, Charlotte

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Corday, Charlotte (1768-1793)

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French Girondin Charlotte Corday (d'Armont), who is most famed for stabbing the Jacobin leader, Jean Paul Marat.

French Girondin (right-wing republican during the French Revolution). After the overthrow of the Girondins by the extreme left-wing Jacobins in May 1793, she stabbed to death the Jacobin leader, Jean Paul Marat, with a bread knife as he sat in his bath in July of the same year. She was guillotined.



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