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her for the names from Caen, after he wrote the names; she walked over and stabbed him in his heart. While she stabbed him, she said to him, “They shall be soon guillotined.” As Marat lay in his tub dying, he yelled out his last words for help. The guards ran in and saw Marat lying in his blood filled tub and saw the young Miss Corday standing next to him covered in blood. She never even made an attempt to run from the law or make any escape. They arrested her and at her trial she confessed to killing Marat by herself and without help. She claimed that with Marat dead, there would be peace in France. They put her in a cart and took her to the guillotine. As they traveled, dozens gathered the streets and around the cart to yell at her and watch her death. Her last words were “I killed one man to save 100,000.” Jacques-Louis David, a famous painter, painted a picture of Marat’s death and named it The Death of Marat. It became a very famous painting and soon was a very popular image of the Revolution. As Corday died, her dreams of peace went with her to the grave as this painting travels throughout France.
Napoleon Napoleon was promoted to BrigadierGeneral on December 1793 just after his performance at the siege of Toulon. He is also named inspector of the Coast based in Nice in the south of France. He is now 25 with a promising career and although his family is still poor he quickly used his newfound influence to acquire jobs for his brothers, Joseph, Lucien and Louis. Things are about to go sour, as these were the days of the ‘Terror’ in France as Robespierre and his followers hunted down and executed all those suspected of being nobles or royalists. As time goes on no will be safe as even Republicans who had made enemies found themselves on the executioners block in front of a baying mob, and when