Charlotte Corday, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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figure of the French Revolution
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Place of Birth: Ligneries, Normandy, France
About Charlotte Corday
- Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont (27 July 1768 – 17 July 1793), known as Charlotte Corday (French: [k??d?]), was a figure of the French Revolution.
- In 1793, she was executed by guillotine for the assassination of Jacobin leader Jean-Paul Marat, who was in part responsible for the more radical course the Revolution had taken through his role as a politician and journalist.
- Marat had played a substantial role in the political purge of the Girondins, with whom Corday sympathized.
- His murder was depicted in the painting The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David, which shows Marat's dead body after Corday had stabbed him in his medicinal bath.
- In 1847, writer Alphonse de Lamartine gave Corday the posthumous nickname l'ange de l'assassinat (the Angel of Assassination).
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