Marat Assassinated in His Bath

July 13, 1793

Charlotte Corday, a Girondin sympathizer from Caen, talked her way into Jean-Paul Marat's apartment with a list of traitors and stabbed him in the chest as he soaked his diseased skin in medicated water. David painted him dying. Corday was guillotined four days later. The Montagnards now had a martyr.