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'''Charlotte Corday''' (27 July 1768 – 17 July 1793) was a figure of the [[French Revolution]]. | '''Charlotte Corday''' (27 July 1768 – 17 July 1793) was a figure of the [[French Revolution]]. She was a minor noblewoman and a member of the [[Girondists]] of the [[National Convention]], and in 1793 she planned to assassinate the anti-Girondist pamphleteer [[Jean-Paul Marat]] to end his persecution of the Girondists. Corday pretended that she was going to rat out her fellow Girondists and entered a room where Marat sat in his medicinal bath, stabbing him with a kitchen knife and killing him. [[Arno Dorian]] later investigated Marat's death and Corday was executed by guillotine on 17 July 1793. | ||
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Charlotte Corday (27 July 1768 – 17 July 1793) was a figure of the French Revolution. She was a minor noblewoman and a member of the Girondists of the National Convention, and in 1793 she planned to assassinate the anti-Girondist pamphleteer Jean-Paul Marat to end his persecution of the Girondists. Corday pretended that she was going to rat out her fellow Girondists and entered a room where Marat sat in his medicinal bath, stabbing him with a kitchen knife and killing him. Arno Dorian later investigated Marat's death and Corday was executed by guillotine on 17 July 1793.