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Charlotte Corday
1793Jul, 17

Charlotte Corday

Charlotte Corday, French murderer (b. 1768)
Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont (27 July 1768 – 17 July 1793), known as Charlotte Corday (French: [kɔʁdɛ]), 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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Events on 1793

  • 21Jan

    Louis XVI of France

    After being found guilty of treason by the French National Convention, Louis XVI of France is executed by guillotine.
  • 23May

    Flanders Campaign

    Battle of Famars during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition.
  • 23Jul

    Mainz

    Kingdom of Prussia re-conquers Mainz from France.
  • 27Aug

    Siege of Toulon

    French Revolutionary Wars: The city of Toulon revolts against the French Republic and admits the British and Spanish fleets to seize its port, leading to the Siege of Toulon by French Revolutionary forces.
  • 5Sep

    French National Convention

    French Revolution: The French National Convention initiates the Reign of Terror.

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