Politician and journalist during the French Revolution (1743-1793)

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Charlotte Corday hiding behind a curtain, Marat dead in his bath. Photogravure after Jules Aviat, ca. 1890.

Jean Paul Marat: portrait and facsimile of autograph letter. Photogravure after Delaine.

Jean Paul Marat. Line engraving by P. Pelée after J. Boze, 1793.

Jean Paul Marat. Colour stipple engraving (?) on silk after F. Bonneville.

Charlotte Corday stabbing Marat in the heart. Etching.

Jean Paul Marat. Stipple engraving by A. Sandoz after F. Bonneville after C.L. Desrais.

Marat, seated in a sedan chair, is carried in a triumphant procession of the revolutionary mob in the street of Paris. Engraving by W. Greatbach after T. Johannot.

The assassination of Jean Paul Marat: Charlotte Corday is about to stab Marat in the bath. Etching after J.D. Schubert.

Jean Paul Marat. Mezzotint by C. F. Levachez & J. Duplessi-Bertaux, 1797.

Jean-Paul Marat MD, revolutionary extraordinary / George Cowan.

Jean Paul Marat. Coloured etching by J. L. Copia after J. L. David, [1793].

Jean Paul Marat : the physician as revolutionist / by E.P. Scarlett.

The arrest of Charlotte Corday after the assassination of Marat in his bath. Engraving by P.G. Berthault after J.F.J. Swebach Desfontaines, ca. 1793.

Découvertes de M. Marat ... sur la lumière ; constatées par une suite d'expériences nouvelles. Qui ont été faites un très-grand nombre de fois sous les yeux de mm. les commissaires de l'Académie des sciences / [Jean Paul Marat].

Mémoire sur l'électricité médicale : couronné le 6 août 1783, par l'Académie royale des sciences, belles-lettres & arts de Rouen.

Reprint of two tracts / by Jean Paul Marat ; edited with an introduction by James Blake Bailey.

[Jean Paul Marat correspondence].

An essay on gleets ; wherein the defects of the actual method of treating those complaints of the urethra are pointed out, and an effectual way of curing them indicated / [Jean Paul Marat].

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Jean-Paul Marat

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Images featuring Jean-Paul Marat

Works from the collections

Découvertes de M. Marat ... sur la lumière ; constatées par une suite d'expériences nouvelles. Qui ont été faites un très-grand nombre de fois sous les yeux de mm. les commissaires de l'Académie des sciences / [Jean Paul Marat].

Mémoire sur l'électricité médicale : couronné le 6 août 1783, par l'Académie royale des sciences, belles-lettres & arts de Rouen.

Reprint of two tracts / by Jean Paul Marat ; edited with an introduction by James Blake Bailey.

[Jean Paul Marat correspondence].

An essay on gleets ; wherein the defects of the actual method of treating those complaints of the urethra are pointed out, and an effectual way of curing them indicated / [Jean Paul Marat].

Jean-Paul Marat

Images from the collections

Images featuring Jean-Paul Marat

Works from the collections

Découvertes de M. Marat ... sur la lumière ; constatées par une suite d'expériences nouvelles. Qui ont été faites un très-grand nombre de fois sous les yeux de mm. les commissaires de l'Académie des sciences / [Jean Paul Marat].

Mémoire sur l'électricité médicale : couronné le 6 août 1783, par l'Académie royale des sciences, belles-lettres & arts de Rouen.

Reprint of two tracts / by Jean Paul Marat ; edited with an introduction by James Blake Bailey.

[Jean Paul Marat correspondence].

An essay on gleets ; wherein the defects of the actual method of treating those complaints of the urethra are pointed out, and an effectual way of curing them indicated / [Jean Paul Marat].

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