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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]]. 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> | '''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> | ||
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Revision as of 19:47, December 29, 2017
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]."[1]
Marat was part of a planned line of statues, the Monumental Propaganda, commemorating various other French Revolutionary figures such as Maximilien de Robespierre, Georges Danton and François-Noël Babeuf, that were to be made shortly after the October Revolution in Russia. However, his statue was never completed.
La muerte de Marat by Santiago Rebull.