MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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EDITOR OF A NEWSPAPER, FIRED UP THE PEOPLE WITH HIS REPORTS, KNOWN AS THE “BATH TUB MAN".
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MARAT
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LOUIS XVI
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DANTON
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ROBESPIERRE
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The radical French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat died, famously, in a bathtub. He was soaking in one when his assassin, Charlotte Corday, plunged a kitchen knife into his chest in 1793. And he was soaking in a bath because of a mysterious condition that left his skin intensely itchy and blistered.
Detailed explanation-2: -A journalist and politician during the French Revolution, he was a vigorous defender of the sans-culottes, a radical voice, and published his views in pamphlets, placards and newspapers.
Detailed explanation-3: -Jean-Paul Marat’s Bathtub at Musée Grévin – Paris, France-Atlas Obscura.
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