Jean-Paul Marat

Portrait of Jean-Paul Marat by Joseph Boze

Jean-Paul Marat was a French doctor and journalist famous for writing about the French revolution and encouraging the Reign of Terror.^[1]

Death

He was stabbed to death in Paris by Charlotte Corday, an act made famous in a painting by Jacques-Louis David. Corday was executed 4 days later after the assassination.^[2]

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Commemorative plaque on the house where Marat was born, in Boudry in Switzerland
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Marat by Jean-François Garneray
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Anonymous portrait of Marat, c. 1793 (Musée Carnavalet)
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The Triumph of Marat by Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1794
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"Marat's Triumph": a popular engraving of Marat borne away by a joyous crowd following his acquittal.
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Bloodstained copy of L'Ami du peuple held by Marat at his assassination, now in the Bibliothèque nationale de France
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The assassination of Marat by Charlotte Corday on 13 July 1793
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The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David (1793)
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Statue of Marat in front of the Musée de la Révolution française