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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]
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.
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 ...
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.
Plaque in Nantes: "Former Coffee Warehouse Jail. During the Terror, during the winter of 1793-1794, at the time of the mission of J.-B. Carrier (who was condemned to death by the Revolutionary Tribunal in Paris and guillotined on 16 December 1794), 8 to 9,000 citizens of the Vendée, Anjou, the Nantes region, and Poitou – men, women, and children – were incarcerated at this jail.
31 May – French Revolution: Regular troops under François Hanriot demand that the Girondins be expelled from the National Convention. 2 June – French Revolution: The Girondins are overthrown in France. 10 June – French Revolution: The Jardin des Plantes and the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle are created by the National Convention ...
French police Seven people, including 6 Algerians, killed by French police 1961 Vitry-Le-François train bombing: 18 June 1961: Blacy, Marne: 24–28 (+132–170 injured) Organisation armée secrète: Train derailed by OAS explosive, killing up to 28. Paris massacre of 1961: 17 October 1961: Paris 40 (government sources) ~200 (opposition ...
A Revolutionary Tribunal was established [at Nantes], of which Carrier was the presiding demon—Carrier, known in all nations as the inventor of that last of barbarous atrocities, the Republican Marriage, in which two persons of different genders, generally an old man and an old woman, or a young man and a young woman, bereft of every kind of ...