MARAT, JEAN-PAUL


Meaning of MARAT, JEAN-PAUL in English

born , May 24, 1743, Boudry, near Neuchtel, Switz. died July 13, 1793, Paris, France French politician, physician, and journalist, a leader of the radical Montagnard faction during the French Revolution. He was assassinated in his bath by Charlotte Corday, a young Girondin conservative. Additional reading Louis R. Gottschalk, Jean Paul Marat: A Study in Radicalism (1927, reissued 1967).

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