Search Results: Charlotte Corday

Charlotte Corday (1768-1793) played a prominent role in the French Revolution (1789-1799) when she assassinated radical activist Jean-Paul Marat in his bathtub on 13 July 1793. Despite her aristocratic background, Corday was an avowed republican...

The assassination of revolutionary activist and Jacobin leader Jean-Paul Marat on 13 July 1793 was one of the most iconic moments of the French Revolution (1789-1799), immortalized in Jacques-Louis David's painting Death of Marat. Marat's...

Depiction of Charlotte Corday, the assassin of Jean-Paul Marat, being led out of her cell to the guillotine on 17 July 1793. Standing at the far left is the painter Jean-Jacques Hauer who has just finished his portrait of her. Painting by...

Charlotte Corday, the future assassin of Jean-Paul Marat, in her hometown of Caen, Normandy. Oil on canvas by Tony Robert-Fleury, c. 20th century. Musée Bonnat-Helleu, Bayonne.

Charlotte Corday, dubbed the "Angel of Assassination" for her murder of Jean-Paul Marat during the French Revolution. Portrait by François-Séraphin Delpech, c. 19th century.

The famous final portrait of Charlotte Corday, painted in her prison cell hours before her execution by Jean-Jacques Hauer, an officer of the National Guard, in 1793. Current location unknown, but a copy is in Versailles.

Sophie Charlotte Princess of Braunschweig-Lüneburg, Queen in Prussia, oil on canvas by Noël Jouvenet, 17th century. Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin. Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg & Handrick, Roland...

Marguerite de Navarre (l. 1492-1549) was a writer, philosopher, diplomat, and Queen of Navarre, sister of King Francois I (Francis I of France, r. 1515-1547), mother of Jeanne d’Albret (l. 1528-1572) and grandmother of Henry IV of France...

George IV of Great Britain (r. 1820-1830) was the fourth of the Hanoverian monarchs. He first reigned as Prince Regent from 1811 for his mad father George III of Great Britain (r. 1760-1820). George IV was an unpopular monarch for his many...

Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre (1758-1794) was a French lawyer who became one of the primary leaders of the French Revolution (1789-1799). From his initial rise to stardom in the Jacobin Club, Robespierre went on to dominate...