The assassination of Marat by Charlotte Corday, 1793. Jean-Paul Marat, 1743 - 1793. French political theorist, Jacobin leader, physician, scientist, radical journalist and politician during the French Revolution. Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont, 1768 - 1793, aka Charlotte Corday. Girondist and figure of the French Revolution. From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915