Jean-Paul Marat
Jean-Paul Marat was a physician and radical journalist whose newspaper L'Ami du peuple (Friend of the People) made him the voice of the most militant sans-culottes during the Revolution. He relentlessly called for mass executions of enemies of the Republic and was a driving force behind the September Massacres of 1792. He was stabbed to death in his medicinal bath on 13 July 1793 by Charlotte Corday, becoming a revolutionary martyr.
- Lived: 1743 CE – 1793 CE
- Nationality: french
- Roles: journalist, revolutionary, physician
