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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.
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.
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.
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.
Portrait painted in 1882. François Joseph Bara (30 July 1779 [1] – 7 December 1793) was a French soldier best known for his death during the War in the Vendée.At the age of twelve, he joined the French Revolutionary Army as a drummer boy after the outbreak of French Revolutionary Wars, and was killed by Chouan rebels while defending a pair of horses he was leading.
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 ...