CHARLOTTE CORDAY
(Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont)
She had been asked what she had hoped to accomplish be killing Marat. Of all people Marat had been the most active and vigorous in calling for the beheading of thousands in the French Revolution. It was known as the Reign of Terror.
Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont, 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).
