Charlotte Corday

his article is about Charlotte Corday, the assassin from the French Revolution. For the opera of the same name, see Charlotte Corday (opera).

Charlotte Corday
Charlotte Corday, painted at her request by Jean-Jacques Hauer, a few hours before her execution.
Born	Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont 27 July 1768 Saint-Saturnin-des-Ligneries,Écorches (in present-day Orne),Normandy, France
Died	17 July 1793 (aged 24) Paris, France
Cause of death	Execution by guillotine
Known for	Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat
Parent(s)	Jacques François de Corday,seigneur d'Armont Charlotte Marie Jacqueline Gaultier de Mesnival

Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont (27 July 1768 – 17 July 1793), 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).