Jean Paul Marat (1743-93) was assassinated by being stabbed to death in his bath.
Marat was a political journalist whose writings were directed towards inflaming the French people to revolution. He was forced into hiding but, when the insurrection began on August 10, 1792, he joined the Paris Committee of Police and Surveillance and approved the September massacres.
He was elected as a deputy to the Convention and accepted the republic decreed on September 22. He voted for the execution of Louis XVI and helped to establish the Revolutionary Tribunal and the Revolutionary Tribunal and the Committee of Public Safety which eventually brought about the terror, as the mass-guillotining of the French Revolution was called.
The Girondins, a political group opposed to Marat, accused him of preaching pillage and murder and attempting to destroy the sovereignty of the people. Marat was acquitted by the tribunal and turned the leaders arrested. Thirty one Girondins were given a so called trial and all of them were guillotined.
By this time, Marat was suffering from a disease of the skin and lungs, and found relief only in warm baths.
On July 13, 1793, Charlotte Corday (1768-93), a young follower of the Girondins from Normandy, gained admittance to his house on the pretext of giving him information. She found him in his bath, drew a knife from under her dress and stabbed him through the heart. She was arrested on the spot and executed on July 17.
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