Which French Noblewoman murdered Jean-Paul Marrat in his bath
Jean-Paul Marat "sans-culottes", publishing his views in pamphlets, placards and newspapers, notably his periodical "L'Ami du peuple" ("Friend of the People"), which helped make him their unofficial link with the radical, republican 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. In death, Marat became an icon to the Jacobins as a revolutionary martyr, as portrayed in Jacques-Louis David's famous painting, "The Death of Marat". For this assassination, Corday was executed four days later, on 17 July 1793. Jean-Paul Marat was born in
William Marrat this period he compiled the "Liverpool Tide Table", and was a contributor to "Blackwood's Magazine". His son Frederick Price Marrat was known as a conchologist. William Marrat William Marrat (1772–1852) was an English printer, publisher and educator, known as a mathematician and antiquarian. Born at Sibsey, Lincolnshire, on 6 April 1772, Marrat was self-taught through wide reading and study of modern language. While at Boston, Lincolnshire, he for some years worked as a printer and publisher. In 1811–12 he, in conjunction with Pishey Thompson, ran "The Enquirer, or Literary, Mathematical, and Philosophical Repository", Boston. At other times Marrat was a