Charlotte Corday

Charlotte Corday (27 July 1768 – 17 July 1793), was a figure of the French Revolution. In 1793, she was executed under the 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. Corday believed his continued leadership would descend France into civil war.

Under the guise of providing a list of Girondists that were planning an uprising in Caen, she recieved an audience with Marat and stabbed him in the chest as he soaked in a medicinal bath. Corday was executed four days later for the murder via guillotine.