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Works by Jean-Paul Marat at Project Gutenberg; Jean-Paul Marat in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland. Marat's (1784) Notions élémentaires d'optique Archived 17 July 2015 at the Wayback Machine – digital facsimile from the Linda Hall Library; review of Conner's biography
At some point to find work Simonne moved to a shared residence at 243 St. Honoré Street Paris with her two sisters, Etiennette Évrard (b.1766), and Catherine Évrard (b.1769), whose husband, Jean Antoine Corne, was a typographer at L'Ami du peuple, newspaper of Jean-Paul Marat. [3]
Jean-Paul Marat gained enormous influence through his powerful L'Ami du peuple with its attacks on scandals and conspiracies that alarmed the people until he was assassinated in 1793. In addition to Marat, numerous important politicians came to the fore through journalism, including Maximilien de Robespierre and Jacques Hébert. In 1789, all ...
The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis Sade, which is usually simplified to Marat/Sade, is a play written by Peter Weiss in which de Sade directs a play featuring the inmates as actors. During his time at Charenton, de Sade did direct plays at the facility.
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 ...
Jean-Paul Marat (1743–1793), French political theorist, physician, and scientist; Arts, entertainment, and media. Marat/Sade, a 1963 play by Peter Weiss;
Paine was imprisoned, but he narrowly escaped execution. The famous painting The Death of Marat depicts the fiery radical journalist and denouncer of the Girondins Jean-Paul Marat after being stabbed to death in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday, a Girondin sympathizer. Corday did not attempt to flee and was arrested and executed.
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.