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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]
Jean Paul Marat: scientist and revolutionary. Amherst, New York: Humanity Books. ISBN 978-1573926072. Conner, Clifford D. (2012). Jean-Paul Marat: Tribune of the French Revolution. Pluto Press. ISBN 978-1849646802. Gottschalk, Louis Reichenthal (1927). Jean Paul Marat: a study in radicalism. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0226305325.
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.
The 28-year-old film actor, martial artist, and son of Bruce Lee was killed by a squib loaded prop gun while filming The Crow. [202] [239] [240] [241] Garry Hoy: 9 July 1993: The 38-year-old lawyer from Toronto fell from the 24th floor of the Toronto-Dominion Centre while demonstrating that its windows were "unbreakable". He threw himself ...
On 13 July, Robespierre defended the plans of Le Peletier to teach revolutionary ideas in boarding schools. [275] [t] On the following day, the Convention rushed to praise Marat – who had been murdered in his bathtub – for his fervor and revolutionary diligence.
Jean Joseph Magdeleine Pijon or Jean Pigeon (7 September 1758 – 5 April 1799) was a French general who was killed in combat during the French Revolutionary Wars. He led an attack column at Loano in late 1795. He commanded a brigade in Napoleon Bonaparte's French Army of Italy during several famous campaigns.
Cochrane's father, The 9th Earl of Dundonald (1748–1831) Thomas Cochrane was born at Annsfield, near Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland.He was the son of Archibald, Lord Cochrane (1748–1831), who later became, in October 1778, The 9th Earl of Dundonald, and his wife, Anna Gilchrist.
L'Ami du peuple (French: [lami dy pœpl], The Friend of the People) was a newspaper written by Jean-Paul Marat during the French Revolution. "The most celebrated radical paper of the Revolution", according to historian Jeremy D. Popkin, [1] L’Ami du peuple was a vocal advocate for the rights of the lower classes and was an outspoken critic against those Marat believed to be enemies of the ...