Wednesday 12 July 2017

assassinatrix: Word of the day for July 13, 2017

assassinatrix , n :
(rare) A female assassin. On this day in 1793, Charlotte Corday stabbed Jean-Paul Marat to death in his bath. Marat was a leader of the radical Jacobin Club which had played a key role in the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution.

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