Marat and his Bath

I think it's rather dismissive to say that Jean–Paul Marat was "taking a bath" when he was murdered by Charlotte Corday. For the last few weeks of his life, he practically lived in his bath in an attempt to relieve the debilitating skin condition from which he had suffered for about three years.

I also don't think it's correct to describe Charlotte Corday as a Royalist. She sympathised with the Girondins, whom Britannica describes as "a loose grouping of republican politicians [my italics] ... who played a leading role in the Legislative Assembly ... during the French Revolution". Britannica goes on to state that throughout the summer of 1792, the Girondins "vacillated in their position toward the existing constitutional monarchy, which was coming under serious attack. The storming of the Tuileries Palace on August 10, 1792, which overthrew the monarchy, took place without their participation and marks the beginning of their decline, as more radical groups (the Paris Commune, the Parisian working class, and the Jacobins under Maximilien Robespierre) came to direct the course of the Revolution."

I interpret all this to mean that the Girondins were anti–Royalist – just not as anti–Royalist as the Montagnards.

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