1790Marat Evades Arrest After Attacks on Government

January 22: Paris municipal police try to arrest Marat for h...
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👮 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

📰 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.
Convention Orders Arrest of Marat for Incitement (1793)
French RevolutionMaratThe ConventionPolitical ArrestViolenceFreedom of the PressRadicalismL'Ami du peuplePolitical Instability

👮 Sans-Culottes Leaders Arrested in Paris

October 3: Arrest of the leaders of the bands of armed sans-culottes in Paris.
Sans-culottesParisArrestRevolutionary factionsSocial unrestReign of TerrorRadicalismPolitical repressionSocial control