Charlotte Corday

Events

1

Episodes

3

Years

1793

Every event in Historedia whose sources name Charlotte Corday, with the role they cite and all of that event’s episodes. This is not a biography, and mentions are grouped by name, so two people with the same name can share this page.

Events and episodes

1. Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat

   1793

   Role: Assassin of Jean-Paul Marat; Girondin sympathiser

   1. 19 July 1793 · Hôtel de Providence, ParisCorday travels to Paris

      Corday left her aunt in Caen on 9 July 1793 and travelled to Paris, lodging at the Hôtel de Providence.

   2. 213 July 1793 · Marat's apartment in ParisCorday stabs Marat in his bath

      On 13 July 1793 Corday obtained an audience with Marat and fatally stabbed him while he took a medicinal bath in Paris.

   3. 317 July 1793 · Place de Grève, ParisCorday guillotined

      Four days after the murder, Corday was executed by guillotine in the Place de Grève on 17 July 1793.

Sources

1. Charlotte Corday Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-25