1793 ⟶ Convention Orders Arrest of Marat for Incitement
April 12: The Convention votes to arrest Marat for using his...
Year
1790
1793
👮 Marat Evades Arrest After Attacks on Government
January 22: Paris municipal police try to arrest Marat for his violent attacks on the government, but he is defended by a crowd of sans-culottes and escapes to London.⟶
MaratSans-culottesArrestParisPolitical OppositionFrench RevolutionFreedom of SpeechGovernmentRadicalism
📰 Marat Resumes L'Ami du Peuple Publication
May 18: Marat returns to Paris and resumes publication of L'Ami du people.⟶
MaratL'Ami du PeupleJournalismPressPropagandaRadicalismFrench RevolutionParisPoliticsPublic Opinion
🔪 Marat Calls for Mass Execution of Aristocrats
July 26: Marat publishes a demand for the immediate execution of five to six hundred aristocrats to save the Revolution.⟶
French RevolutionMaratReign of TerrorViolenceRadicalismExecutionPolitical ViolenceAristocracyJacobinsRevolutionary Press
📰 Convention Orders Arrest of Marat for Incitement
April 12: The Convention votes to arrest Marat for using his newspaper L'Ami du peuple to incite violence and murder, and demand to suspend the convention. Marat goes into hiding.⟶
French RevolutionMaratThe ConventionPolitical ArrestViolenceFreedom of the PressRadicalismL'Ami du peuplePolitical Instability
🗣️ Robespierre and Marat Advocate Insurrection at Jacobin Club
May 26: At the Jacobin Club, Robespierre and Marat call for an insurrection against the convention. The Paris Commune begins preparing a seizure of power.⟶
French RevolutionJacobin ClubRobespierreMaratInsurrectionParis CommuneRadicalismConventionPower StrugglePolitical Instability
🔪 Charlotte Corday Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat
July 13: Charlotte Corday assassinates Jean-Paul Marat in his bath. At her trial, she declares, "I killed one man to save a hundred thousand."⟶
AssassinationFrench RevolutionRadicalismViolencePolitical ViolenceMaratCordayReign of TerrorAtrocity