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A journalist and politician during the French Revolution, he was a vigorous defender of the sans-culottes, a radical voice, and published his views in pamphlets, placards and newspapers. His periodical L'Ami du peuple ( The Friend of the People ) made him an unofficial link with the radical Jacobin group that came to power after June 1793.
In 1897, the French director Georges Hatot made a movie entitled La Mort de Marat. This early silent film made for the Lumière Company is a brief single-shot scene of the assassination of the revolutionary. The composition influenced one of the scenes in Stanley Kubrick's 1975 adaptation of Barry Lyndon. [citation needed]
Rightist anti-parliamentary leagues had been the main activists during the January 1934 demonstrations. Although these leagues were not a new phenomenon (the old Ligue des Patriotes ("Patriot League") had been initiated by Paul Déroulède in 1882), they played an important role after World War I, in particular when leftists were in power, as they had been since the 1932 legislative elections. [6]
The victims were 160 Catholic priests known as 'refractory clergy' (French: clergé réfractaire) who had been arrested in the area. After being initially held at Saint-Clément Convent, they were moved in the summer of 1793 to the Carmelite Mission in Nantes because it had been converted into a prison.
Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont (27 July 1768 – 17 July 1793), known simply as Charlotte Corday (French:), was a figure of the French Revolution who assassinated revolutionary and Jacobin leader Jean-Paul Marat on 13 July 1793.
French people executed by guillotine during the French Revolution (1 C, 146 P) Pages in category "People executed by guillotine during the French Revolution" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total.
The modern Middle East has seen a number of occasions in which the assassination of high-level government and military figures was attempted, or at least considered. Such instances include United States decapitation strike air raids targeting Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in 1986 and Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in 1991, 1998, and 2003, in addition to killings or attempted killings of non-state ...
Auguste Marie Henri Picot, Marquis de Dampierre. Auguste Marie Henri Picot de Dampierre (French pronunciation: [oɡyst maʁi ɑ̃ʁi piko də dɑ̃pjɛʁ]; 19 August 1756 – 9 May 1793), styled the Marquis de Dampierre and usually known as Dampierre [dɑ̃.pjɛʁ], was a French general during the time of the French Revolution.