Jean-Paul Marat
Murder in the Musee d'Orsay
...images of Charlotte Corday, the young woman who murdered the French revolutionary mass-killer, Jean-Paul Marat, in his bath in 1793. There are early 19th-century Corday-Marat paintings but...
The Death of Marat
...Marat the way David had planned it. Detail of The Death of Marat showing the paper held in Marat's left hand Marat's figure appears quite idealized. For example, the painting contains...
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Jean-Paul Marat
...speeches to a hatred of the Montagnards and their excesses, symbolised most powerfully in the character of Marat. Marat's assassination contributed to the mounting suspicion which fed...
L'Ami du peuple
...to keep their electorate informed of current political events. When they did not take up his proposal, Marat resigned his post as elector in order to concentrate on writing a journal...
Charlotte Corday
She went first to the National Assembly to carry out her plan, but discovered Marat no longer attended meetings. She went to Marat's home before noon on 13 July, claiming to have knowledge...
Jacques Nicolas Billaud-Varenne
...and voted for death "within 24 hours". On 2 June 1793, in the context of Jean-Paul Marat's anti-Girondist instigations, he proposed a decree of accusation against the Girondists; a...
Marat/Sade
The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade (), almost invariably shortened to...
Departing councilman gets gift, and a little payback
...his fellow politico a going-away present. It was a book: The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction...
Adam Lux
...the execution of the Girondist Charlotte Corday, who had assassinated the radical agitator Jean-Paul Marat. With the publication of provoking pamphlets, in which he justified the...
Man Booker Prize won by Hilary Mantel's tale of historical intrigue
...that Mantel's intention to write a sequel comes to fruition sooner than her promised novel about Jean-Paul Marat, "guest star" of A Place of Greater Safety. Seventeen years after her...
Louis Gustave le Doulcet, comte de Pontecoulant
...he had refused to defend his fellow Normand and Girondist Charlotte Corday, the assassin of Marat, who wrote him a letter of reproach on her way to the guillotine. He returned to the...
This day in history
...enacted an ordinance governing the Northwest Territory. ► In 1793, French revolutionary writer Jean-Paul Marat was stabbed to death in his bath by Charlotte Corday, who was executed four...
