Jean-Paul Marat (24 May 1743 – 13 July 1793) was a French political theorist, physician and scientist. He was a journalist and politician during the French Revolution. His periodical L’Ami du peuple made him an unofficial link with the radical Jacobin group. Marat was assassinated by Charlotte Corday, a Girondin sympathizer, while taking a medicinal bath.
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Jean-Paul Marat (24 May 1743 – 13 July 1793) was a French political theorist, physician and scientist. He was a journalist and politician during the French Revolution. His periodical L’Ami du peuple made him an unofficial link with the radical Jacobin group that came to power after June 1793. Marat was assassinated by Charlotte Corday, a Girondin sympathizer, while taking a medicinal bath for his debilitating skin condition. The most famous painter in Paris, Jacques-Louis David, immortalized Marat in his iconic painting The Death of Marat. In death, Marat became an icon to the Jacobins 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 Marats’ Marat’s 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 of Newcastle upon Tyne. He lived on black coffee for three months and slept two hours a night, and after finishing it he slept soundly for 13 days in a row. His work earned him honorary membership of the patriotic societies of Berwick-upon-Tweed, Newcastle and Wear-Carlisle, and he was presented to the Tyne and Wear guilds in 1773. He published a philosophical theory on Manay Essay on Man and Slavery in 1774 and political theory on Voltaire’s De l’Homme lhomme in 1775.
He died in Paris in 1793 and was buried in the Cimetière du Louvre, where he was buried with his wife and two children. He is buried alongside his wife, Marie-Louise Marat, and their three children, Jean-Paul, Louis and Jean-Baptiste, who died in 1815. Mar at was the second of nine children born to Jean Mara, a native of Cagliari, Sardinia, and Louise Cabrol, a French Huguenot from Castres. His father was a Mercedarian commendator and religious refugee; he converted to Calvinism in Geneva. He left home at the age of 16, in search of new opportunities. He moved to Paris and studied medicine, without gaining any formal qualifications. He worked, informally, as a doctor after moving to London in 1765 due to a fear of being \”drawn into dissipation\”. While there he befriended the Royal Academician artist Angelica Kauffman. His social circle included Italian artists and architects who met in coffee houses around Soho. He set about inserting himself into the intellectual scene. Around 1770, he moved to Newcastle uponTyne, and published a book on curing a friend of the wealthy Nairac family in Bordeaux. His first patronage was fulfilled with the wealthy. He was aware of the limited opportunities for those seen as outsiders as his highly educated father had been turned down for several college teaching posts.
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