Marat’s Assassination

On July 13, 1793, at 30 rue des Cordeliers, in the location of the current medical school (rue de l’Ecole-de-Médecine), an attack occurred that dramatically changed the Revolution; the journalist and Paris deputy Jean-Paul Marat was assassinated in his own home, in his bathtub, by an unknown young woman answering to the name of Charlotte Corday. She considered him to be responsible for the radical shift in the Revolution. By killing him, she hoped to terrorize his supporters.