One of the leaders of the Jacobins was Jean-Paul Marat. In July 1793 he was assassinated by Charlotte Corday. He was in a bath to relieve a painful skin condition when she arrived. She said she had information for Marat but instead used a kitchen knife to stab him in the chest. Corday was guillotined four days later and was supposed to have said that she ‘killed one man to save 100,000’.