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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 72-page book has led Wesley to be mentioned alongside his contemporaries Richard Lovett and Jean Paul Marat as a pioneer advocate of the medical uses of electroconvulsive therapy, despite the fact that Wesley's tests and results are not considered scientific by modern standards.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Marat (given name) Marat (surname) Jean-Paul Marat (1743–1793), French political theorist, physician, ...
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.
Jean-Paul Marat led the attack on the representatives in the National Convention, who in January had voted against the execution of the King and since then had paralyzed the convention. It ended after thousands of armed citizens surrounded the convention to force it to deliver the deputies denounced by the Commune.
Paine was imprisoned, but he narrowly escaped execution. The famous painting The Death of Marat depicts the fiery radical journalist and denouncer of the Girondins Jean-Paul Marat after being stabbed to death in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday, a Girondin sympathizer. Corday did not attempt to flee and was arrested and executed.
Jean-Paul Marat: Radical journalist; Montagnard; assassinated by Charlotte Corday. François-Séverin Marceau: Soldier who participated in the storming of the Bastille; later a general. Marie Antoinette: Queen consort of France; deposed, guillotined. André Masséna: General; victor at the Battle of Zürich. Became Marshal of the Empire in 1804.