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The painting 1793 “The Death of Marat” commemorates the famous assassination of Marat and the painting is regarded to be one of the most famous images of the French Revolution.

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Marat was elected to the National Convention in September 1792 as one of 26 Paris deputies,

where he led the attack against the Girondists. On July 13 1793, he was stabbed to death in his bath by Charlotte Corday (l'ange de l'assassinat, the Angel of Assassination), a royalist sympathizer.  The immediate effect of Marat’s assassination was to seal the fate of the Girondins alike in Paris and the departments. “We are all dead men,” were the words uttered by every Jacobin on hearing the news of the murder of the great leader of the Mountain.

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On 12 September 1789, Marat began his own newspaper, entitled Publiciste parisien, before changing its name four days later to L'Ami du peuple ("The People's friend"). From this position, he often attacked the most influential and powerful groups in Paris. Outlawed for his views, he fled to England twice and worked in secret on L’Ami du peuple.  Marat’s inflammatory journalism helped inspire the August 10, 1792, uprising and the September massacres of political prisoners.  In August 1792, he was elected to the Convention, where he led the attack against the Girondists. On July 13 1793, he was stabbed to death in his bath by Charlotte Corday (l'ange de l'assassinat, the Angel of Assassination), a royalist sympathiser.

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-  Around 1770, Marat moved to Newcastle upon Tyne. His first political work, Chains of Slavery, inspired by the extra-parliamentary activities of the disenfranchised MP, and later Mayor of London, John Wilkes, was most probably compiled in the central library there.
-  June 1775. On his return to London, he published Enquiry into the Nature, Cause, and Cure of a Singular Disease of the Eyes.
-  The first of Marat's large-scale publications detailing his experiments and drawing conclusions from them was Recherches Physiques sur le Feu (Research into the Physics of Fire), which was published in 1780 with the approval of the official censors.
-  His second major work Découvertes sur la Lumière (Discoveries on Light) was to demonstrate that in certain key areas, Issac Newton was wrong.
-  Marat's third major work, Recherches Physiques sur l'Électricité (Research on the Physics of Electricity), outlined 214 experiments.
-  In 1782, Marat published his "favourite work," a Plan de législation criminelle. It was a polemic for penal reform, inspired by Rousseau and Cesare Beccaria, which had been entered into a competition announced by the Berne economic society in February 1777 and backed by Frederick the Great and Voltaire.
-  When the Revolution began (1789), he launched the radical journal L’Ami du peuple which ended up being his final and most famous work.

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Born: 24 May 1743
Died: 13 July 1793
Cause of Death: Assassination by Charlotte Corday.

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Father: Jean Mara
Mother: Louise Cabrol
Spouse: Simonne Evrard
Jean-Paul Marat was the second of nine children born to Jean Mara and Louise Cabrol.

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Jean-Paul Marat was a French political theorist, physician, and scientist.  At the age of sixteen, Marat left home in search of new opportunities.  His first stop was with the wealthy Nairac family in Bordeaux. After two years there he moved on to Paris where he studied medicine without gaining any formal qualifications.