Which French Revolutionary leader was assassinated whilst taking a bath in 1793?
Jean-Paul Marat "sans-culottes", publishing his views in pamphlets, placards and newspapers, notably his periodical "L'Ami du peuple" ("Friend of the People"), which helped make him their unofficial link with the radical, republican Jacobin group that came to power after June 1793. Marat was assassinated by Charlotte Corday, a Girondin sympathizer, while taking a medicinal bath for his debilitating skin condition. In death, Marat became an icon to the Jacobins as a revolutionary martyr, as portrayed in Jacques-Louis David's famous painting, "The Death of Marat". For this assassination, Corday was executed four days later, on 17 July 1793. Jean-Paul Marat was born in
Campaigns of 1793 in the French Revolutionary Wars French Revolution from 1789 to 1814", by François Mignet (1824), as made available by Project Gutenberg, as well as other Wikipedia articles. Campaigns of 1793 in the French Revolutionary Wars The French Revolutionary Wars continued from 1792, with new powers entering the First Coalition after the execution of King Louis XVI. Spain and Portugal entered the coalition in January 1793, and on 1 February France declared war on Great Britain and the Netherlands. At the opening of the year, Dumouriez chose to ignore orders from the government in Paris to defend Belgium and instead began an invasion of the Netherlands,