SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Charlotte Corday

1768 - 1793

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Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont (27 July 1768 – 17 July 1793), known simply as Charlotte Corday (French: [kɔʁdɛ]), was a figure of the French Revolution who assassinated revolutionary and Jacobin leader Jean-Paul Marat on 13 July 1793. Born in Normandy to a minor aristocratic family, Corday was a resident of Caen and a sympathizer of the Girondins, a moderate faction of French revolutionaries in opposition to the Jacobins. She held Jean-Paul Marat responsible for the September Massacres of 1792 and, believing that the Revolution was in jeopardy due to the more radical course the Jacobins had taken, decided to assassinate Marat.On 13 July 1793, having traveled to Paris and obtained an audience with Marat, Corday fatally stabbed him with a knife while he was taking a medicinal bath. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charlotte Corday has received more than 2,052,936 page views. Her biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia. Charlotte Corday is the 25th most popular social activist (down from 22nd in 2019), the 280th most popular biography from France (down from 228th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular French Social Activist.

Charlotte Corday is most famous for assassinating Jean-Paul Marat in 1793.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 71.82

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 48

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.18

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Charlotte Cordays by language

Over the past year Charlotte Corday has had the most page views in the with 207,002 views, followed by French (111,767), and German (53,515). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are German (94.14%), Chuvash (58.02%), and Scottish Gaelic (52.73%)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Charlotte Corday ranks 25 out of 840. Before her are Gustav I of Sweden, Peter Kropotkin, Robert Owen, Bertha von Suttner, Thomas Müntzer, and Olympe de Gouges. After her are Guy Fawkes, Irena Sendler, Simon bar Kokhba, Omar Mukhtar, Emily Greene Balch, and Hassan al-Banna.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1768, Charlotte Corday ranks 5. Before her are Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor, Joseph Fourier, Joseph Bonaparte, and François-René de Chateaubriand. After her are Friedrich Schleiermacher, Frederick VI of Denmark, Karađorđe, Louis Desaix, Caroline of Brunswick, Lazare Hoche, and Marie-Guillemine Benoist. Among people deceased in 1793, Charlotte Corday ranks 7. Before her are Marie Antoinette, Louis XVI of France, Madame du Barry, Jean-Paul Marat, Carlo Goldoni, and Olympe de Gouges. After her are Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, Yolande de Polastron, Francesco Guardi, Madame Roland, Jacques Pierre Brissot, and Jean Sylvain Bailly.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charlotte Corday ranks 280 out of 6,770. Before her are Arsène Wenger (1949), Francis Picabia (1879), Vincent de Paul (1581), Prosper Mérimée (1803), Philip the Good (1396), and Paul Signac (1863). After her are Gilles de Rais (1405), Baldwin I of Jerusalem (1058), Frédéric Mistral (1830), Désirée Clary (1777), Pope Sylvester II (938), and Joseph-Ignace Guillotin (1738).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In France

Among social activists born in France, Charlotte Corday ranks 2. Before her are Olympe de Gouges (1748). After her are Edmond James de Rothschild (1845), Gabrielle d'Estrées (1573), Louise Michel (1830), René Cassin (1887), Léon Jouhaux (1879), Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (1208), Flora Tristan (1803), Jacques Roux (1752), René Just Haüy (1743), and Abbé Pierre (1912).

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