Charlotte Corday, the assassin ... and so did opinions on the Death of Marat. David had to have the painting hidden away when he was exiled to Brussels. Meanwhile, Corday continued to be the ...

The Death of Marat depicts a gruesome political murder ... On July 13 th of 1793, the 50-year-old writer was murdered by 24-year-old Charlotte Corday, who was either, depending on the propaganda ...

Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont (27 ... painting by Jacques-Louis David which shows Marat after Corday had stabbed him to death in his bathtub. In 1847, writer Alphonse de Lamartine ...

Born into French nobel family in Normandy in 1768, monarchist Charlotte Corday was guillotined four days after she murdered revolutionary leader Jean-Paul Marat by stabbing him in the heart in 1793.

The dramatic murder turned Marat into an instant revolutionary ... This article originally misstated the political position of Charlotte Corday. She was a Girondist, not a royalist.