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Charlotte Corday — Marat’s killer, guillotined four days later, 1768–1793
A young Norman woman of Girondin sympathies, she stabbed Marat in his bath to “kill one man to save a hundred thousand”, and mounted the scaffold four days later, calm to the end. (Editorial synthesis)
Charlotte Corday was born on 27 July 1768. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Charlotte Corday died on 17 July 1793. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Charlotte Corday died in Paris. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Charlotte Corday died of her execution by guillotine. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
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