Snippets of French History: Jean-Paul Marat 1743-1793

Although Marat claimed to be a physician, he had no qualifications, and his reputation as a physician was born when he managed to cure his friend of gonorrea.  He was interested in medicine and in the sciences in general and worked as an unofficial doctor in London for several years, and then in France.

He has gone down in history as a journalist, the most out-spoken and inflamatory journalist of his time, a politician who vigorously supported the Revolutuion and a fierce advocate of human rights.  He was arguably the most radical voice of the French Revolution.

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