1790 ⟶ Marat Resumes L'Ami du Peuple Publication
May 18: Marat returns to Paris and resumes publication of L'...
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📰 Marat's L'Ami du peuple Launches, Advocating Radical Revolution
September 16: First issue of Jean Paul Marat's newspaper, L'Ami du peuple, proposing a radical social and political revolution.⟶
French RevolutionNewspapersPropagandaRadicalismMaratPublic OpinionPolitical DiscourseJournalismRevolutionary IdealsPress
📰 Desmoulins' Newspaper Begins Publication, Attacks Royalists
November 28: First issue of Desmoulins' weekly Histoire des Révolutions de France et de Brabant, savagely attacking royalists and aristocrats.⟶
French RevolutionJournalismPropagandaPolitical SatireRadicalismRoyalistsAristocratsPressDesmoulins
📰 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's Attack on Necker Published
January 18: Marat publishes a fierce attack on finance minister Necker.⟶
MaratNeckerJournalismPressPamphletPolitical CriticismFrench RevolutionPropagandaPublic OpinionRadicalism
👮 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
📰 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