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| death = 13 July 1793 {{c|aged 50}}<br | | death = 13 July 1793 {{c|aged 50}}<br>[[Paris]], [[France|French Republic]] | ||
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Latest revision as of 01:41, 13 July 2026
Jean-Paul Marat (1743 – 1793) was a physician, political theorist, and scientist, as well as a radical journalist and politician during the French Revolution.[1]
Biography[edit | edit source]
During the revolution, Marat published the newspaper L'Ami du peuple ("Friend of the People"), which brought him much notoriety as an influential supporter of the sans-culottes and the radical Jacobins. He advocated for a purge of the moderate Girondists, which led to concerns that Marat's radical views would start a civil war in France.[2]
At some point in the 1790s, Marat signed a letter which authorized a violent gang to rob the graves on Île de la Cité. However, the French Assassin Arno Dorian stole the letter, ending the gang's criminal activities.[3]
On 13 July 1793, the Girondist sympathizer Charlotte Corday assassinated Marat inside his own home while he took a medicinal bath. Marat had granted an audience with Corday after she pretended to bring a list of Girondists conspiring against him, only for her to fatally stab him with a knife she had purchased from a local merchant.[4] Arno Dorian later investigated the circumstances of Marat's murder, ultimately identifying Corday as the culprit. After Marat's death, the painter Jacques-Louis David made a posthumous portrait of him,[4] immortalizing Marat as a Jacobin martyr.[5]
Legacy[edit | edit source]
In 2012, the Assassin Clay Kaczmarek included Jacques-Louis' painting of Marat in a glyph he had hidden for Desmond Miles to find inside the Animus 2.0.[6]
Gallery[edit | edit source]
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The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David
Appearances[edit | edit source]
- Assassin's Creed II (first appearance) (painting only)
- Assassin's Creed: Unity
- Echoes of History (mentioned only)
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑
Jean-Paul Marat on Wikipedia
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Unity – Database: Jean-Paul Marat
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Unity – Marat's Missive
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Assassin's Creed: Unity – The Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat
- ↑ Project Widow – "Marat the martyr"
- ↑ Assassin's Creed II – Glyph #7: "Keep on Seeking, and You Will Find"