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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 ]
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.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; ... Marat (given name) Marat (surname) Jean-Paul Marat (1743–1793), French political ...
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 ...
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.
This is a list of haplogroups of historic people. Haplogroups can be determined from the remains of historical figures, or derived from genealogical DNA tests of people who trace their direct maternal or paternal ancestry to a noted historical figure.
The Death of Marat is a 1793 painting by Jacques-Louis David depicting the artist's friend and murdered French revolutionary leader, Jean-Paul Marat. It was painted when David was the leading French Neoclassical painter, a Montagnard , and a member of the revolutionary Committee of General Security .