"On 13 July 1793, journalist Jean-Paul Marat was assassinated by Charlotte Corday, while taking a medicinal bath for his debilitating skin condition."
Jean-Paul Maratc (1743-1793)
Painter David went onsite to paint the dead Marat.
The Death of Marat
－ Jacques-Louis David (French, 1748–1825)
－ oil (165 × 128 cm) 1793
－ Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
"In his death, Marat became an icon to the Jacobins as a revolutionary martyr. For this assassination, Corday (1768-93) was executed four days later." - Wiki
Charlotte Corday
- Paul Baudry (French, 1828-1886)
- oil (90 x 60 cm) 1860
- Musee des Beaux-Arts (Nantes)
"Under the Second Empire (regime of Napoleon III from 1852 to 1870), Marat was seen as a revolutionary monster (causing too many to the guillotines during the Reign of Terror), and assassin Corday as a heroine of France (as represented in the wall map)."
The execution of Robespierre and his supporters
on 28 July 1794
(ending the Reign of Terror)
Thus ended the Reign of Terror.
"Note: the beheaded man is Couthon; Maximilien Robespierre is shown sitting on the cart, dressed in brown, wearing a hat, and holding a handkerchief to his mouth; his younger brother Augustin is being led up the steps to the scaffold."
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