Philippe-Jean Pelletan

Philippe-Jean Pelletan was a French surgeon born in Paris. Son of a surgeon, Pelletan was a member of the Académie Royale de Chirurgie and of the Académie des Sciences. He was a professor to the Faculté de Médecine de Paris, and in 1789 elected surgeon of the Garde Nationale. On 13 July 1793, moments after the assassination of Jean-Paul Marat by Charlotte Corday, Pelletan was present at the crime scene. The minutes on the death certificate bear his signature.