July 13, 2004
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211 YEARS AGO TODAY
Jul 13 1793
French revolutionary writer Jean Paul Marat is stabbed to death in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday, as she gives him a list of names to be guillotined. The assassination inspired the famous painting by Jacques Louis David; Corday was executed four days after slaying Marat.
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whoa..
Executed after four days? Whoa.
And then the Marquis de Sade reenacted the scene in the mental asylum he ended up in, convincing inmates to play Jean Paul Marat and Charlotte Corday, respectively. The Marat actor was really killed.
Don't know when this happened, though.
Oh wait. You know that.
Meh.
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