Charlotte Corday

Born into a family of minor Norman nobility, Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d’Armont (1768-1793), known as Charlotte Corday, was initially enthusiastic about revolutionary ideas and the revolutionary movement. But the advent of the Reign of Terror, the regicide, and the rise of civil war in the west revolted this young idealist. In the aftermath of the September 1792 massacres, in which more than 1,000 Parisian prisoners were killed, she decided to mark her place in history by assassinating the influential Jacobin journalist Jean-Paul Marat, who had openly praised the massacres. She succeeded in her plan while Marat was in his bathtub.
For this murder, which did not immediately end the Terror as she had hoped, she was guillotined.