Jean Paul Marat

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Jean Paul Marat

1743–1793

A fiery voice of the French Revolution, he moved from medicine and science into politics and became famous for the fierce journalism of L’Ami du peuple. His life ended violently in 1793, but his name remains tied to the Revolution’s most radical hopes and fears.

3 Audiobooks

Les aventures du jeune Comte Potowski, Vol. 1 (of 2) Un roman de coeœur par Marat, l'ami du peuple

Les aventures du jeune Comte Potowski, Vol. 1 (of 2) Un roman de coeœur par Marat, l'ami du peuple

by Jean Paul Marat

Reprint of Two Tracts 1. An essay on gleets. 2. An enquiry into the nature, cause, and cure of a singular disease of the eyes

Reprint of Two Tracts 1. An essay on gleets. 2. An enquiry into the nature, cause, and cure of a singular disease of the eyes

by Jean Paul Marat

Les aventures du jeune Comte Potowski, Vol. 2 (of 2) Un roman de coeœur par Marat, l'ami du peuple

Les aventures du jeune Comte Potowski, Vol. 2 (of 2) Un roman de coeœur par Marat, l'ami du peuple

by Jean Paul Marat

About the author

Born on May 24, 1743, in Boudry, in the Principality of Neuchâtel, Jean-Paul Marat trained as a physician and also pursued scientific writing before entering revolutionary politics. During the French Revolution he became a journalist, pamphleteer, and politician whose work spoke directly to the sans-culottes and attacked those he saw as enemies of the people.

Marat is best remembered for publishing L’Ami du peuple (The Friend of the People), a newspaper that gave him a powerful public voice. His writing was urgent, combative, and deeply influential, helping make him one of the best-known radical figures of the era and a leading presence among the Montagnards.

He was assassinated in Paris on July 13, 1793, by Charlotte Corday. That dramatic death fixed him in history not only as a revolutionary activist, but also as one of the French Revolution’s most unforgettable and controversial personalities.