Jean-Paul Marat

(1743-1793)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Marat, Jean Paul, 1743-1793 LBT ID: JeMarat1793 VIAF ID: 19680982 LOC ID: n50040632	B/BAP: 1743-05-24 DIED: 1793-07-13
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French journalist and radical democrat, publisher of L'Ami du peuple; after he was assassinated by Charlotte Corday he was regarded as a republican martyr.
REFERENCES TO Jean-Paul Marat: Léonard Simond de Sismondi to John Whishart, [November? 1815] in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Found 1: ¶ 3 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, “Extraordinary Case of the late Mr. Southey” in The Examiner (11 May 1817) 236-37 Found 1: ¶ 14 Maginn, William, 1793-1842, “Galt’s Life of Byron” in Fraser’s Magazine 2 (October 1830) 347-70 Found 1: ¶ 3 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter IV 1825 Found 1: ¶ 46 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter II. Found 1: ¶ 135 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. V. 1802-1803 Found 1: ¶ 1 Whishaw, J. (John), 1764 or 5-1840, The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Chapter III: 1815