murder of Jean-Paul Marat

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The murder of Jean-Paul Marat was the 1793 assassination of the radical French revolutionary leader by Charlotte Corday during the French Revolution, famously immortalized in Jacques-Louis David’s painting "The Death of Marat."


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Predicate Object
instanceOf assassination
historical event
political killing
hasAftermath Marat’s body honored at the Panthéon (later removed)
widespread revolutionary propaganda using Marat’s image
hasArtHistoricalSignificance subject of one of the most famous political paintings in Western art
hasCountry France
hasCulturalDepiction The Death of Marat
hasCulturalDepictionCreator Jacques-Louis David
hasCulturalDepictionForm painting
hasCulturalDepictionGenre Neoclassical art
hasDate 13 July 1793
hasExecutionDate 17 July 1793
hasExecutionLocation Paris
hasExecutionMethod guillotine
hasHistoricalPeriod French Revolution
hasHistoricalSignificance iconic event of the French Revolution
hasImmediateConsequence arrest of Charlotte Corday
death of Jean-Paul Marat
hasLegalOutcome execution of Charlotte Corday
trial of Charlotte Corday
hasLocation Marat’s residence
Paris
hasLocationDetail bathtub
hasMediaContext L’Ami du peuple
hasMethod stabbing
hasMotive political opposition to radical Jacobins
support for Girondins
hasPerpetrator Charlotte Corday
hasPerpetratorBackground Girondin sympathizer
hasPerpetratorGender female
hasPerpetratorOrigin Normandy
hasPerpetratorStatement I killed one man to save a hundred thousand
hasPerpetratorTactic gaining access by claiming to reveal a plot
hasPoliticalContext Reign of Terror
hasPoliticalImpact intensification of revolutionary repression
strengthening of radical Jacobins
hasPrecedingCondition Marat’s habit of working in a bathtub
Marat’s skin disease
hasSymbolicMeaning conflict between Girondins and Jacobins
martyrdom of the Revolution
hasTargetRole journalist
member of the National Convention
radical revolutionary leader
hasVictim Jean-Paul Marat
hasWeapon knife

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The Death of Marat
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