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2. The Death of Marat - Wikipedia

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   The painting is recreated in The Red Violin (1998), in the scene when Jason Flemyng, playing violinist Frederick Pope, leans back in a bathtub with a letter from his lover in his hand. In the 2002 movie, About Schmidt , Jack Nicholson's character Warren falls asleep in the bath whilst composing a letter, recreating David's painting .

3. Jean-Paul Marat - Wikipedia

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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.

4. French Revolution - Wikipedia

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   The French Revolution (French: Révolution française [ʁevɔlysjɔ̃ fʁɑ̃sɛːz]) was a period of political and societal change in France which began with the Estates General of 1789 and ended with the Coup of 18 Brumaire on 9 November 1799.

5. Jean-Pierre Houël - Wikipedia

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   Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Houël (28 June 1735 – 14 November 1813) [1] was a French painter, engraver and draftsman. During his long life, Houël witnessed the reign of Louis XV, the French Revolution, and the period of Napoleon's First Empire.

6. Charlotte Corday - Wikipedia

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   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.

7. Republican marriage - Wikipedia

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   The use of the term appears to be a mockery of the concept of "republican marriage" as an actual "secular" marriage.Books describe parents horrified to learn that their children planned a "republican marriage" instead of being married in a church.