1793, Jean-Paul Marat led the expulsion of 31 Girondists from the French National Convention. It was followed by the Reign of Terror that had 17,000 to 40,000 counter revolutionaries guillotined over the next year. Marat, Robespierre and Danton were the most important figures in this period.
Marat was stabbed to death in his bathtub in July of the same year by a Girondist sympathizer, Charlotte Corday.
The 'Death of Marat' by Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) above.
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