Charlotte Corday
1768 – 1793
French

Political figure. Horrified by the excesses of the French Revolution, she assassinated Marat.

Contemporaries
1717–1783Jean d'Alembert
1694–1778Voltaire
1727–1781Anne-Robert-Jacquees Turgot
1783–1842Stendhal
1712–1778Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1777–1849Julie Récamier
1769–1821Napoleon I
1743–1793Jean Marat
1782–1854Felicité Lamennais
1790–1869Alphonse Lamartine
1715–1771Claude-Adrien Helvétius
1772–1837Charles Fourier
1713–1784Denis Diderot
1792–1867Victor Cousin
1715–1780Étienne Condillac
1768–1848François Chateaubriand
1788–1856Étienne Cabet
1707–1788Georges-Louis Buffon
1754–1793Jacques Pierre Brissot
1771–1802Xavier Bichat