Charlotte Corday murders Jean-Paul Marat, the leader of the Jacobins, in 1793, in the bathtub.

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Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont (1768-1793) is better known as Charlotte Corday. She was active in the French Revolution. In 1793, she was sentenced to the guillotine and executed. Her crime was her assassination of Jean-Paul Marat, the leader of the Jacobins, a radical group of the revolution that was taking over the less radical Girondins of which Corday was a member. She stabbed him while he was taking a bath in his tub. In this Here is pictured The Murder of Marat, a painting by Belgian academic artist Jean Joseph Weerts.

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