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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]
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.
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.
Frédéric Constant Cournet, French revolutionary. Killed by Frenchman, Emmanuel Barthélemy in the last duel in the United Kingdom – 1852; David C. Broderick, U.S. Senator from California – 1859 [43] Lucius M. Walker, Confederate Civil War general – 1863 [44] Ferdinand Lassalle, German socialist leader – 1864 [45]
The commander of all Swiss mercenaries in French service, Louis-Auguste-Augustin d'Affry, who had been absent on 10 August due to illness, reported on 12 November that about 300 Swiss guardsmen had been killed at the Tuileries. [38] On the side of the insurgents, three hundred and seventy-six were either killed or wounded.
Both candidates were scrambling for votes in the most competitive states, with Harris, the U.S. vice president, appealing to early voters in Georgia and Trump, the former president, campaigning in ...
In the 1950s, France was swept by a right-wing populist movement founded by a rural bookstore owner named Pierre Poujade.. Poujade, a Royal Air Force pilot during World War II and a powerful ...
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 ...