On July 17, 1793 Charlotte de Corday was executed by guillotine for the murder of prominent French revolutionary, Jean-Paul Marat. Marat was a journalist and a member of the radical Jacobin party, who specifically supported the September Massacres, which was Corday's reasoning for killing him. The assassination took place on July 13. Charlotte was very calculated and the assassination was definitely premeditated. The day of the assassination, Corday bought a dinner knife and wrote Adresse aux Français amis des lois et de la paix (Letter to the French People Who are Friends of Law and Peace), explaining what, how, and why she was committing the aassassination She went to Marat's home and told him that she had information pertaining to a Girondist rebellion. Marat, who commonly conducted business from his bath tub due to a skin condition, took down the names Corday gave him and was stabbed in the chest by Corday the dinner knife that she hiding in her scarf.
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