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For Gaston Martin, about 1,800 died, for Fouquet 9,000 died, for Mellinet 3,500 were killed. [ 12 ] According to historian Reynald Secher, these murders are one component of a systematic policy of extermination of the residents of the Vendée planned by the revolutionary Committee of Public Safety, and approved by a vote of the National ...
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]
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.
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This is a list of rallies held by Donald Trump for his first successful presidential campaign in the 2016 presidential election resulting in him being elected the 45th president of the United States during his first presidency from 2017 to 2021. During the campaign which lasted 512 days, a total of 323 rallies were held: 186 for the primary ...
Louis Victor Meriadec de Rohan, Prince de Guéméné, Duke of Montbazon and Bouillon (20 July 1766 – 10 December 1846) was a French aristocrat who fled France at the start of the French Revolution. He fought in the army of Habsburg Austria and the Austrian Empire in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.
Claude-Jacques Lecourbe, lieutenant-colonel of the 7th Jura Battalion, by Esprit-Aimé Libour (1834). Lecourbe was born in Besançon, Franche-Comté, on 22 February 1759, the son of Claude Guillaume Lecourbe, a cavalry officer, and Marie Valette. [1]
Trump supporters in the Kansas City area expressed anger, sadness and relief after the shooting at a Pennsylvania rally, which left Trump shot in his right ear and a rally attendee dead.