biography
pronunciation:
[mara]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1743–93)
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| biography:
| French revolutionary politician, born in Boudry, W Switzerland. He studied medicine at Bordeaux, and lived in Paris, Holland, Newcastle, and London. At the Revolution he became a member of the Cordelier Club, and established the radical paper L'Ami du peuple (The Friend of the People). His virulence provoked hatred, and he was several times forced into hiding. Elected to the National Convention, he became a leader of the Mountain, and advocated radical reforms. After the king's death he was locked in a struggle with the Girondins, and was fatally stabbed in his bath by a Girondin supporter, Charlotte Corday; thereafter he was hailed as a martyr. |
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