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Corday, Charlotte, properly Marie Charlotte Corday d'Armont 1768-93
French noblewoman
She was born in St Saturnin. Despite her aristocratic background she welcomed the Revolution at first, but was then so horrified by the behaviour of the Jacobins that she resolved to kill either Robespierre or Jean Paul Marat. After hearing of Marat's demand for 200,000 more victims, she entered his house in Paris by pretending to be a messenger. Marat was having a bath, and his heartless comment about the fugitive Girondins ('I will have them all guillotined at Paris') incited her to stab him to death. Unrepentant, she was brought before the Revolutionary Tribunal and guillotined four days later.
Bibliography: Jacqueline Dauxois, Charlotte Corday (1988)
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