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Charlotte Corday
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Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont (27 July 1768 – 17 July 1793) is known to history as Charlotte Corday. She was a French woman who stabbed to death radical journalist Jean-Paul Marat while he was bathing. Marat was a Jacobin who supported terror and violence to protect the Revolution. He was not sympathetic to Corday's moderate political friends among the Girondins. She was arrested, tried, and died on the guillotine.
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