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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>
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.