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Jean
Paul Marat,
a leader
of the French
Revolution,
was stabbed
in the chest
by his assassin
Charlotte
Corday who
later died
on the guillotine.
Though David
portrayed
Marat as
a saint,
holding
his killer's
deceitful
note, Corday
felt otherwise.
At her trial,
she said,
"I
was not
killing
a man, but
a wild beast
that was
devouring
the French
people."
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