Jean-Paul Marat
Jean-Paul Marat, (1743-93). French revolutionary. He practised medicine in Paris for a time but gave this up to become a revolutionary and to edit the radical jour-nal L’Ami du Peu ple. Having been elected to the National Convention in 1792 he helped bring about the fall from power of the Girondins, the moderate re-publicans, in 1793. Marat suffered from a skin disease and while taking one of his frequent medicinal baths he was stabbed to death by a Girondin fanatic, Charlotte Corday.
