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'''Jean Paul Marat''' was a leader of the [[Cordeliers Club]] (a radical group in France) along with [[Georges Danton]]. He was assassinated in 1793 by a young Girondist named [[Charlotte Corday]], who believed that his death would end the [[French Revolution]].
'''Jean Paul Marat''' was a leader of the [[Cordeliers Club]] (a radical group in France) along with [[Georges Danton]]. He was assassinated in 1793 by a young Girondist named [[Charlotte Corday]], who believed that his death would end the [[French Revolution]]. Like most of the people involved in the French Revolution, he was a huge follower of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, even adopting a disheveled and unbathed appearance specifically to "live simply and according to the precepts of [Rousseau]."<ref>http://www.stephenhicks.org/2010/01/07/rousseau-and-the-french-revolution/</ref>
''La muerte de Marat'' by [[Santiago Rebull]].
''La muerte de Marat'' by [[Santiago Rebull]].
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