Jean-Paul Marat
![Marat by [[Joseph Boze]], 1793](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/Jean-Paul_Marat_portre.jpg)
His journalism was known for its fierce tone and uncompromising stance toward the new leaders and institutions of the revolution. Responsibility for the September massacres has been attributed to him, given his position of renown at the time, and an alleged paper trail of decisions leading up to the massacres. Others posit the collective mentality that made them possible resulted from circumstances and not from the will of any particular individual. Marat was assassinated by Charlotte Corday, a Girondin sympathizer, while taking a medicinal bath for his debilitating skin condition. Corday was executed four days later for his assassination, on 17 July 1793.
In death, Marat became an icon to the Montagnards faction of the Jacobins as well as the greater sans-culotte population, and a revolutionary martyr; according to contemporary accounts, some even mourned him with a kind of prayer: "O heart of Jesus! O sacred heart of Marat". The most famous painter in Paris, Jacques-Louis David, immortalized Marat in his iconic painting ''The Death of Marat''. David and Marat were part of the Paris Commune leadership anchored in the Cordeliers section, from where the Revolution is said to have started in 1789 because those who stormed the Bastille lived there. Both David and Marat were on the Commune's Committee of General Security during the beginnings of what would become known as the Reign of Terror. Provided by Wikipedia
-
1by Marat, Jean Paul, 1743-1793### CRL customization ### ?> ### Add publisher and desc details ### ?>
Published 1967Tokyo : Society of Reproduction of Rare Books, 1967.v. ; 22 cm. -
2by Marat, Jean Paul, 1743-1793### CRL customization ### ?> ### Add publisher and desc details ### ?>
Published 1956Moskva : Izd-vo Akademii nauk SSSR, 1956.3 v. : ill. ; 23 cm. -
3by Marat, Jean Paul, 1743-1793### CRL customization ### ?> ### Add publisher and desc details ### ?>
Published 1967Tokyo : Society for Reproduction of Rare Books, 1967.v. ; 22 cm. -
4by Marat, Jean Paul, 1743-1793### CRL customization ### ?> ### Add publisher and desc details ### ?>
Published 1967Tokyo : Society for Reproduction of Rare Books, 1967.6 no. ; 22 cm. -
5by Marat, Jean Paul, 1743-1793### CRL customization ### ?> ### Add publisher and desc details ### ?>
Published 1967Tokyo : Society of Reproduction of Rare Books, 1967.v. ; 22 cm. -
6by Marat, Jean Paul, 1743-1793### CRL customization ### ?> ### Add publisher and desc details ### ?>
Published 1967Tokyo : Society of Reproduction of Rare Books, 1967.v. ; 22 cm. -
7by Marat, Jean Paul, 1743-1793### CRL customization ### ?> ### Add publisher and desc details ### ?>
Published 1967Tokyo : Society of Reproduction of Rare Books, 1967.v. ; 22 cm. -
8by Marat, Jean Paul, 1743-1793### CRL customization ### ?> ### Add publisher and desc details ### ?>
Published 1967Tokyo : Society for Reproduction of Rare Books, 1967.v. ; 22 cm. -
9Published 1967### CRL customization ### ?> ### Add publisher and desc details ### ?>Tokyo : Society of Reproduction of Rare Books, 1967.5 no. ; 22 cm.Other Authors: “...Marat, Jean Paul, 1743-1793...”
-
10Published 1967### CRL customization ### ?> ### Add publisher and desc details ### ?>Tokyo : Society for Reproduction of Rare Books, 1967.v. ; 22 cm.Other Authors: “...Marat, Jean Paul, 1743-1793...”
-
11Published 1967### CRL customization ### ?> ### Add publisher and desc details ### ?>Tokyo : Society for Reproduction of Rare Books, 1967.372 p. ; 22 cm.Other Authors: “...Marat, Jean Paul, 1743-1793...”