Answer: John Paul Marat
Who was killed in the bathtub?

The Death of Marat (French: La Mort de Marat or Marat Assassiné) is a 1793 painting by Jacques-Louis David of the murdered French revolutionary leader Jean-Paul Marat. It is one of the most famous images of the French Revolution. David was the leading French painter as well as a Montagnard and a member of the revolutionary Committee of General Security. The painting shows the radical journalist ly…

The Death of Marat (French: La Mort de Marat or Marat Assassiné) is a 1793 painting by Jacques-Louis David of the murdered French revolutionary leader Jean-Paul Marat. It is one of the most famous images of the French Revolution. David was the leading French painter as well as a Montagnard and a member of the revolutionary Committee of General Security. The painting shows the radical journalist lying dead in his bath on 13 July 1793 after his murder by Charlotte Corday. Painted in the months after Marat's murder it has been described by T. J. Clark as the first modernist painting for "the way it took the stuff of politics as its material and did not transmute it". The painting is displayed in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium. A replica done by the author's studio is in display at the Louvre.

Marat (24 May 1743 – 13 July 1793) was one of the leaders of the Montagnards the radical faction ascendant in French politics during the Reign of Terror until the Thermidorian Reaction . Charlotte Corday was a Girondin from a minor aristocratic family and a political enemy of Marat who blamed him for the September Massacre . She gained entrance to Marat's rooms with a note promising d…

Marat (24 May 1743 – 13 July 1793) was one of the leaders of the Montagnards the radical faction ascendant in French politics during the Reign of Terror until the Thermidorian Reaction . Charlotte Corday was a Girondin from a minor aristocratic family and a political enemy of Marat who blamed him for the September Massacre . She gained entrance to Marat's rooms with a note promising ...

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