Charlotte Corday

Charlotte Corday (27 July 1768 – 17 July 1793), was a figure of the French Revolution. In 1793, she was executed under the guillotine for the assassination of Jacobin leader Jean-Paul Marat, who was in part responsible, through his role as a politician and journalist, for the more radical course the Revolution had taken. Corday believed his continued leadership would descend France into civil war.

Under the guise of providing a list of Girondists that were planning an uprising in Caen, she received an audience with Marat and stabbed him in the chest as he soaked in a medicinal bath. Arno Dorian later discovered her to be the murder though investigation and proceeded to apprehend and arrest her. Corday was executed four days later for the murder via guillotine.