Jean-Paul Marat was a leader of the French Revolution. He was the editor of "L'ami du peuple" ("Friend of the people"). The newspaper that named people who were to be executed during the Terror.
He was a leader in the Committee of Public Safety and of the Jacobins as well as an influential journalist.
Jean Paul Marat was a leader of the French Revolution. He was killed by Charlotte Corday of Caen, France in his bath tub. He continued to issue letters, pamphlets, and speeches to the citizens of France for the Revolution, despite the troubles it had in establishing a government, and eventually the Emperor Napoleon. Marat's socialist ideals were corrupted. Even with the Revolutionary Tribunals and use of the guillotine the redistribution of wealth could not occur, leaving the poor facing inflation, war, and few options.
Jean-Paul Marat was murdered in his bathtub on July 13th, 1793.
Marat was killed by Charlotte Cordoy, who was a French Revolutionary in an aristocratic family. She killed Marat because she believed Marat is the one who caused the September Massacres. She said that she killed one man to save the lives of 100,000, meaning she believed killing Marat would end the bloodshed. Her act was in vain, for Marat become a martyr and a figurehead for the Revolution. More violence and bloodshed ensued.
Jean Jacques Rousseau is called the father of french revolution.
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Jean-Paul Marat was killed by Charlotte Corday in his bathtub.
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Jean Paul Marat was a leader of the French Revolution. He was killed by Charlotte Corday of Caen, France in his bath tub. He continued to issue letters, pamphlets, and speeches to the citizens of France for the Revolution, despite the troubles it had in establishing a government, and eventually the Emperor Napoleon. Marat's socialist ideals were corrupted. Even with the Revolutionary Tribunals and use of the guillotine the redistribution of wealth could not occur, leaving the poor facing inflation, war, and few options.
Jean-Paul Marat, a French revolutionary and journalist, was stabbed to death in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday on July 13, 1793. Corday was a supporter of the Girondins faction and believed that by killing Marat, she could halt the radical turn of the French Revolution.
The dead man in the painting, Jean-Paul Marat, was a comrade of the artist, Jacques-Louis David, during the French Revolution. Marat was a journalist and a radical who was known for rallying people for the revolt, and was ultimately murdered by Charlotte Corday, (mentioned in the note Marat is holding in the painting). Corday felt that by killing Marat, thousands of deaths in the name of the revolution could be avoided. The purpose could be interpreted as a memorial to the artist's friend as well as a political statement for the horrendous occurrences brought about from the French Revolution.
Jean-Paul Marat was many things; he was a great philosopher who helped to bring the French out of dark times. He was a radical voice and journalist during the French Revolution who resolutely stood up for the rights of the poor sans-culottes.
Jacques-Louis David immortalized the French Revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat in his painting The Death of Marat. Marat was murdered by Charlotte Corday.
Well i know she was the woman who killed Jean- Paul Marat, who by the way was an important leader in the fight against the government rulers. He was also blamed for the September Massacres in Paris which was the motive behind his assignation (look up 'Death of Marat')
The main leader was Maximilien Robespierre because he was the driving force behind the french revolution, and near the end had so much power he was considered a dictator. Another important character in the revolution was Jean-Paul Marat. He ran a local newspaper and wrote about the people who should be guillotined for conspiring against the revolution. He was later on assassinated. jacques hebert is a key person as well, same as Georges Danton
They both were killed by their wives in their baths