Charlotte Corday13 July 1793
Stabs Marat to death in his bath. Stabs Jean-Paul Marat to death in his bath. A reaction to the Jacobin challenge to the Girondists.
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Stabs Marat to death in his bath. Stabs Jean-Paul Marat to death in his bath. A reaction to the Jacobin challenge to the Girondists.
Stabbed to death in his bath by Charlotte Corday, a Girondist and anti-Jacobin.
Marat is assassinated by Charlotte Corday and becomes a martyr figure for radical revolutionaries.
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