Jacques Louis David ja Prantsuse Revolutsioon
Peletier. (Vaughan,????????????????) By creating a martyr of Le Peletier, people found it
easier to relate to the events and political actions that occurred at that time.
The second martyr and the most famous among the three was Jean-Paul Marat. Marat was a
member of the Jacobin club, publisher of the newspaper called L'ami du Peuple and one of
the main prompters of the carnage of 1792. He was assassinated in 1793 by a supporter of the
Girondists, Charlotte Corday, who stabbed him in the chest while Marat was taking a bath.
The members of the Jacobin club organized him a funeral and his coffin was placed in
Pantheon. Marat would have gone down in history as a great murderer, if it had not been
Charlotte Corday, whose deed allowed the Jacobins to display Marat as a martyr. The same
deed enabled David to portray him as a hero. David, a member of the Jacobin club,
commemorated his killing with a sincerely mourning painting. (Vaughan, ?????
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