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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charlotte Corday has received more than 2,071,130 page views. Her biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Charlotte Corday is the 22nd most popular social activist (up from 24th in 2019), the 228th most popular biography from France (up from 247th in 2019) and the most popular French Social Activist.

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

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 72.82

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 48

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.73

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.62

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Charlotte Corday ranks 22 out of 538. Before her are Guy Fawkes, Robert Owen, Rosa Parks, Lady Godiva, Gustav I of Sweden, and Peter Kropotkin. After her are Olympe de Gouges, Irena Sendler, Bertha von Suttner, Thomas Müntzer, Emiliano Zapata, and Omar Mukhtar.

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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 Frederick VI of Denmark, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Karađorđe, Louis Desaix, Jean-Baptiste Bessières, Édouard Mortier, Duke of Trévise, and Caroline of Brunswick. Among people deceased in 1793, Charlotte Corday ranks 4. Before her are Marie Antoinette, Louis XVI of France, and Jean-Paul Marat. After her are Madame du Barry, Olympe de Gouges, Carlo Goldoni, Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, Yolande de Polastron, Jean Sylvain Bailly, Jacques Pierre Brissot, and Francesco Guardi.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charlotte Corday ranks 228 out of 6,011. Before her are Charles Fourier (1772), Gilles Deleuze (1925), Pope Urban VI (1318), François-René de Chateaubriand (1768), Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900), and Philip III of France (1245). After her are Pope Leo IX (1002), Jean-Michel Jarre (1948), Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796), François Boucher (1703), Madame du Barry (1743), and Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (1796).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In France

Among social activists born in France, Charlotte Corday ranks 1. After her are Olympe de Gouges (1748), Gabrielle d'Estrées (1573), Edmond James de Rothschild (1845), René Cassin (1887), Louise Michel (1830), Flora Tristan (1803), Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (1208), Léon Jouhaux (1879), Jacques Roux (1752), Abbé Pierre (1912), and René Just Haüy (1743).

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