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Charlotte Corday
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I told my plans to no one. I was not killing a man, but a wild beast that was devouring the French people.

Charlotte Corday

Charlotte Corday—a young Girondin conservative who assassinated the French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat in 1793 while he was bathing and who was subsequently tried, convicted, and guillotined—was born this day in 1768.

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