Charlotte Corday à Caen en 1793. Tony Robert-Fleury (French, Academic, 1838-19
Charlotte Corday à Caen en 1793. Tony Robert-Fleury (French, Academic, 1838-1911). Oil on canvas. Musée Bonnat (Bayonne). In 1793, Jean Paul Marat, one of the most outspoken leaders of the French Revolution, is stabbed to death in his bath by Corday, a Royalist sympathizer. She is shown here in Caen planning, with a firm demeanor, her actions to come. -- source link
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