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Marat

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Ma·rat  (m-rä, mä-), Jean Paul 1743-1793.
Swiss-born French revolutionary who founded (1789) L'Ami du peuple, which supported the French Revolution. He was elected to the National Convention in 1792 but was assassinated in the following year by a Girondist.
Marat (French) [mara]
n
(Biographies / Marat, Jean Paul (1743-1793) M, French, POLITICS: revolutionary leader, WRITING: journalist) Jean Paul (ʒɑ̃ pɔl). 1743-93, French revolutionary leader and journalist. He founded the radical newspaper L'Ami du peuple and was elected to the National Convention (1792). He was instrumental in overthrowing the Girondists (1793); he was stabbed to death in his bath by Charlotte Corday
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Noun1.MaratMarat - French revolutionary leader (born in Switzerland) who was a leader in overthrowing the Girondists and was stabbed to death in his bath by Charlotte Corday (1743-1793)
Jean Paul Marat


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I said so even at the time when everybody was in raptures about him, when he had just returned from abroad, and when, if you remember, he posed as a sort of Marat at one of my soirees.
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