Marat
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7.6
- proper noun
- /mɑːˈrɑː/
- Iris prepared herself for this by remembering the only bathtub she knew of in the history of art—the one in which Marat died and where David painted him: Death of Marat.
Examples
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We all remember what happened to Robespierre, Danton and Marat.
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Reproduced by the Jacobins, Marat became an image used to incite The Terror.
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Charlotte Corday and Marat... ...one of the leaders of the French Revolution.
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Effeminacy and the absence of a father make him prone to seek surrogate figures among powerful and violent political men such as Marat and Robespierre.
Academic text (1994) -
The Death of Marat, Jacques-Louis David's 1793 painting of the French revolutionary murdered in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday, may be a masterpiece, but its politics led to the guillotine.
Blog text (5) -
Jean-Paul Marat was a key figure in the French Revolution, known for his fiery pamphlets and radical ideas.
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As an influential journalist, Marat played a crucial role in the political turmoil of 18th-century France.
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The assassination of Marat by Charlotte Corday is one of the most notable events during the Revolution.
Synonyms
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9.3
A French revolutionary leader in the late 1700s who was killed in his bath
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8.7
A leader in the French Revolution who was killed in his bath by Charlotte Corday
Surface Forms
Etymology
Marat is the name of Jean-Paul Marat, a French revolutionary and newspaper writer known for his radical views who was murdered while taking a bath. A famous painting shows that dramatic scene, so you can remember Marat as the outspoken leader who died in his bath and became a symbol of the French Revolution.