WI Jean-Paul Marat, because of a terrible bout of hiccups, wasn't in the bath, when Charlotte Corday came to visit him ?.
He stands a better chance of avoiding her attack. Suppose he's only wounded.
Granted he's ill anyway, but how much longer might he have lived.
Marat's sister believed he could have reconciled Danton and Robespierre.
Was this just wishful thinking. What if he had ?.
What if, one result of the assassination attempt, is that, all three are motivated by a sense of danger, to the revolution, of infighting. Marat was a very straight spoken man. Can he be the third man, that brokers, between the other two. Maybe Marat can to some degree pacify the Herbatists.
suppose this triumvirate, are able, to struggle their way through to, seriously
presenting an offer, of a process, that will lead, to the writing of a constitution. And representative elections. In short what if the squabbling factions, are have something to focus on, other than infighting. They're energies diverted into canvassing, for the constitution. The body that writes the constitution might come from local elections.