Jean-Paul Marat

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.