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charlotte corday by jean-jacques hauer 17 july 1793 paris , france roman catholic saint-saturnin-des-ligneries normandy , france , Écorches -lrb- in present-day orne -rrb- , 200px charlotte corday jacques charlotte marie jacqueline gaultier de mesnival françois de corday , '' seigneur d'armont '' 27 july 1768 assassination of jean-paul marat charlotte corday.png charlotte corday
 marie-anne charlotte de corday d'armont execution by guillotine
charlotte corday

marie-anne charlotte de corday d'armont -lrb- 27 july 1768 -- 17 july 1793 -rrb- , known to history as charlotte corday -lrb- -rrb- , 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 , through his role as a politician and journalist , for the more radical course the revolution had taken .
more specifically , he played a substantial role in the political purge of the girondins , with whom corday sympathized .
his murder was memorialized in a celebrated painting by jacques-louis david which shows marat after corday had stabbed him to death in his bathtub .
in 1847 , writer alphonse de lamartine gave corday the posthumous nickname `` l'ange de l'assassinat '' -lrb- the angel of assassination -rrb- .
