In honor of Bastille Day, I present Charlotte Corday. Great woman.

One of the greatest and bravest women who ever lived. 18 years old, good looking, grew up on Plutarch, and when she saw real evil, was willing to sacrifice her life to do it.

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There Corday solicited an interview with Marat because of the influence of his newspaper over the masses, and on July 13, 1793 she was finally admitted to his presence while he was in his bath. She named dissidents in Normandy; he noted them and assured her that they would be guillotined. She then drew a knife from under her dress and stabbed him through the heart. Arrested on the spot, she was tried and convicted by the Revolutionary Tribunal (July 16–17) and forthwith guillotined on the Place de la Révolution.

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Britannica.com.


She calmly waited for the police.