https://padlet.com/robir7024/nxphk9upqlit Jean-Paul Marat en-us 2018-11-19 23:06:51 UTC 2018-11-21 14:05:45 UTC hello@padlet.com robir7024 https://padlet.com/robir7024/nxphk9upqlit/wish/306351294 Not much is known about Marat's early life except that he was born in Switzerland in 1743, moved around to England Holland and Italy until eventually coming to France at some point and completed his doctorate. Marat also had a skin condition from which he spent much of his time in medicinal baths, which he did not let get in the way of his political work.]]> 2018-11-20 14:16:20 UTC https://padlet.com/robir7024/nxphk9upqlit/wish/306351294 robir7024 https://padlet.com/robir7024/nxphk9upqlit/wish/306352994 Marat pursued many different professions through his life, he began with becoming a doctor, who was popular among the nobility ironically. After that he became a journalist and politician as he began to peruse politics and advocated for the common person of France. Marat even wrote influential books such as Chains of Slavery.]]> 2018-11-20 14:19:15 UTC https://padlet.com/robir7024/nxphk9upqlit/wish/306352994 robir7024 https://padlet.com/robir7024/nxphk9upqlit/wish/306355808 Marat began to publish the anti monarch newspaper known as "The Friend of the People", which commonly got Marat into trouble from the authorities although Marat continued the paper until his death, repeatedly having to flee from Franc only to return again. One of the times he fled was after he critiqued the king's finance minister Jacques Necker. But upon his return the fame he had garnered among the people served as a form of protection.]]> 2018-11-20 14:23:58 UTC https://padlet.com/robir7024/nxphk9upqlit/wish/306355808 robir7024 https://padlet.com/robir7024/nxphk9upqlit/wish/306727117 "Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom, and happiness. A false humanity has held your arms and suspended your blows; because of this millions of your brothers will lose their lives."
-Jean-Paul Marat]]> 2018-11-21 13:27:38 UTC https://padlet.com/robir7024/nxphk9upqlit/wish/306727117 robir7024 https://padlet.com/robir7024/nxphk9upqlit/wish/306727482 Jean-Paul Marat represented the third estate during the revolution, which were the common people of France. Marat joined the Jacobin faction, which were interlocked in bitter debate with the more moderate Girondin faction who defended the second estate, which was comprised of nobility and clergy. Marat warned of the emriges which were members of the upper class who fled from France to other countries who supported the monarchy, once there they plotted to return and re institute the monarchy.]]> 2018-11-21 13:28:52 UTC https://padlet.com/robir7024/nxphk9upqlit/wish/306727482 robir7024 https://padlet.com/robir7024/nxphk9upqlit/wish/306732260 Marat disproved of the lack of radical action taken by the National Assembly against the monarchy. Additionally Marat began to advocate for graduated income tax, state sponsored vocational training for workers and shorter terms for military service. Among those Marat also pushed for execution of counter-revolutionaries. In his peak Marat was put on trial at a revolutionary tribunal set up by the moderate Girondins, of which the charges levied against him Marat was acquitted of all. Marat's health declined and he was stabbed to death in one of his medicinal baths for his skin condition by a Girondin, Charlotte Corday. This lead to violence against the moderates and made Marat into a martyr for the French people, only increasing the influence of his ideas.]]> 2018-11-21 13:43:58 UTC https://padlet.com/robir7024/nxphk9upqlit/wish/306732260 robir7024 https://padlet.com/robir7024/nxphk9upqlit/wish/306734643 Jean-Paul Marat can be considered the leader of the revolution because of his radical views along with his popular policy on the monarchy and government during France in the 18th century. The huge impact that those same views made on the general populous during and more importantly after his death where his views boiled over and resulted in the Reign of Terror make him the leader of the revolution.]]> 2018-11-21 13:51:12 UTC https://padlet.com/robir7024/nxphk9upqlit/wish/306734643