Marat

[ ma-ra ]

noun

1. Jean Paul [zhah, n, -pawl], 1743–93, French politician and journalist: leader in the French Revolution; assassinated by Charlotte Corday d'Armont.

Marat

/ mara /

noun

1. MaratJean Paul17431793MFrenchPOLITICS: revolutionary leaderWRITING: journalist Jean Paul (ʒɑ̃ pɔl). 1743–93, French revolutionary leader and journalist. He founded the radical newspaper L'Ami du peuple and was elected to the National Convention (1792). He was instrumental in overthrowing the Girondists (1793); he was stabbed to death in his bath by Charlotte Corday

Example Sentences

“This is the time to build a bridge to Putin, before the most talented people move out of Russia,” said curator Marat Gelman.

From The Daily Beast

Danton, Marat, and Robespierre were now in the ascendency, riding with resistless power upon the billows of mob violence.

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So let us pity the poor vial of prussic acid dashed down so suddenly, and by so noble a hand, whom mortals call Marat.

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Marat was a still more compact concentration of that essence.

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Mirabeau, with Carlyle, is a cracked angel; Marat, a lame and limping fiend.

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These two lots do, indeed, join in their rear, but Marat has no association with either.

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