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Jean-Paul Marat was born in Boudry, in the Prussian Principality of Neuchâtel (now a canton of Switzerland), on 24 May 1743. [7] He was the first of five children born to Jean Mara (born Juan Salvador Mara; 1704–1783), a Sardinian [ 8 ] [ 9 ] from Cagliari , and Louise Cabrol (1724–1782), from Geneva . [ 10 ]
The Triumph of Marat (French: Le Triomphe de Marat) is an oil on canvas history painting by the French artist Louis-Léopold Boilly, from 1794. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is in the collection of the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille , having been acquired in 1865.
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 ...
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.
Simonne Évrard was born in Tournus,Saône-et-Loire, Burgundy to Nicolas Évrard, a ship’s carpenter, and his second wife Catherine Large. The eldest of three daughters, at the age of 12 she would end up taking care of her sisters when they were orphaned after the death of her father who was 50 years old at the time.
The insurrection of 31 May – 2 June 1793 (French: Journées du 31 mai et du 2 juin 1793, lit. ' Day of 31 May to 2 June 1793 '), during the French Revolution, started after the Paris commune demanded that 22 Girondin deputies and members of the Commission of Twelve should be brought before the Revolutionary Tribunal.
Maximilien Robespierre, Georges Danton and Jean-Paul Marat in a portrait by Alfred Loudet, 1882 (Musée de la Révolution française) During the French Revolution (1789–1799), multiple differing political groups, clubs, organizations, and militias arose, which could often be further subdivided into rival factions. Every group had its own ideas about what the goals of the Revolution were and ...
Jean-Paul Marat, heading the surveillance committee of the Commune, immediately started the mass dissemination of a notice imploring all patriots to eliminate counter-revolutionaries themselves as soon as possible, [21] and Jean-Lambert Tallien, the secretary of the commune, called for an expansion of the mass action beyond Paris as a patriotic ...