1743 Jean-Paul Marat is born

275 years ago, on May 24, 1743, Jean-Paul Marat was born, one of the leaders of the Jacobins, editor and publisher of the newspaper The Friend of the People, after which he got his nickname. Marat was an ardent preacher of revolutionary terror. In his historical essay about him, Mark Aldanov wrote:

"All admirers of Marat can be advised a simple experience: to read one by one in the old sets of "Friend of the People" his latest articles - he demanded 260 thousand heads of counter-revolutionaries, exactly 260 thousand, no more and no less ... through delusional bloody articles, from where hundreds of people perished, a perfectly clear thought constantly shines through, which clearly distinguishes him from the crowd of other participants in the French Revolution ... This thought: a dictatorship is needed, a bloody dictatorship is needed, we cannot be saved without a dictatorship, there is no way out without a dictatorship! .. "