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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]
Plaque erected in 1907 at Talmay. On 16 January 1774 Marie Thérèse Figueur, called Madame Sans-Gêne, was born in this house. Marie-Thérèse Figueur (Talmay, 17 January 1774 – Paris, hospice des Petits Ménages, 4 January 1861), known by the nom de guerre Sans-Gêne (literally "unconstrained"), was a French soldier who fought in the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars.
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.
Gutwirth, Madelyn (1992), The Twilight of the Goddesses; Women and Representation in the French Revolutionary Era, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. Kindleberger, Elizabeth R (1994), "Charlotte Corday in Text and Image: A Case Study in the French Revolution and Women's History", French Historical Studies, vol. 18, pp. 969– 99.
French Revolutionary Army 209 rebels massacred by soldiers Battle of Savenay: December 1793: Savenay: 663–2,000 French Revolutionary Army Rebel prisoners executed by Republicans Infernal columns: January 21–May 17 1794 Vendée: 20,000 - 50,000 French Revolutionary Army A series of massacres in an area previously affected by the Royalist ...
Soldiers of the French Revolution (1989) Forrest, Alan. Conscripts and Deserters: The Army and French Society during Revolution and the Empire (1989) excerpt and text search; Griffith, Paddy. The Art of War of Revolutionary France, 1789–1802 (1998) excerpt and text search; Hazen, Charles Downer – The French Revolution (2 vol 1932) 948 pages.
However, it was the Law of Suspects (French: Loi des suspects) approved by the National Convention of the French First Republic on 17 September 1793 that swept the nation with "revolutionary paranoia". [3] This decree defined a broad range of conduct as suspicious in the vaguest terms, and did not give individuals any means of redress.
Rose-Alexandrine Barreau was born in May 1773 in the Tarn area of France. She married François Leyrac on 5 March 1792, and signed up alongside her new husband and her brother Cyprien Barreau for the 2nd Battalion of the Tarn in the Army of the French First Republic. She was listed in records as "Liberté" Barreau, a "son of Jacques and Jeanne ...