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Charlotte Corday

1768 - 1793

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Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont (27 July 1768 – 17 July 1793), known simply as Charlotte Corday (French: [kɔʁdɛ]), was a figure of the French Revolution who assassinated revolutionary and Jacobin leader Jean-Paul Marat on 13 July 1793. Corday was a sympathiser of the Girondins, a moderate faction of French revolutionaries in opposition to the Jacobins. She held Marat responsible for the September Massacres of 1792 and, believing that the Revolution was in jeopardy from the more radical course the Jacobins had taken, she decided to assassinate Marat. On 13 July 1793, having travelled to Paris and obtained an audience with Marat, Corday fatally stabbed him with a knife while he was taking a medicinal bath. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charlotte Corday is the 31st most popular social activist (down from 25th in 2019), the 329th most popular biography from France (down from 280th in 2019) and the most popular French Social Activist.

Charlotte Corday is most famous for assassinating Jean-Paul Marat in 1793.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Charlotte Corday ranks 31 out of 840. Before her are Sophia of Prussia, Emily Greene Balch, Guy Fawkes, Robert Owen, Margaret Sanger, and Shirin Ebadi. After her are Thích Quảng Đức, Emiliano Zapata, Bacha Khan, Toussaint Louverture, Jan Palach, and Ferdinand Lassalle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1768, Charlotte Corday ranks 5. Before her are Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor, Joseph Fourier, François-René de Chateaubriand, and Joseph Bonaparte. After her are Friedrich Schleiermacher, Frederick VI of Denmark, Karađorđe, Édouard Mortier, Duke of Trévise, Jean-Baptiste Bessières, Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom, and Louis Desaix. Among people deceased in 1793, Charlotte Corday ranks 6. Before her are Louis XVI of France, Marie Antoinette, Madame du Barry, Jean-Paul Marat, and Carlo Goldoni. After her are Olympe de Gouges, John Michell, Yolande de Polastron, Francesco Guardi, Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, and Madame Roland.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charlotte Corday ranks 329 out of 6,770. Before her are Richard I of Normandy (933), Abraham de Moivre (1667), Emmanuel Macron (1977), Pope Nicholas II (990), Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot (1748), and Georges-Eugène Haussmann (1809). After her are John the Fearless (1371), John I of France (1316), Alphonse Daudet (1840), François de La Rochefoucauld (1613), William Longsword (893), and Elisabeth of France (1602).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In France

Among social activists born in France, Charlotte Corday ranks 1. After her are Olympe de Gouges (1748), Gabrielle d'Estrées (1573), Léon Jouhaux (1879), Louise Michel (1830), René Just Haüy (1743), Flora Tristan (1803), Edmond James de Rothschild (1845), René Cassin (1887), Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (1208), Abbé Pierre (1912), and Balthasar Gérard (1557).

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