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7 unusual facts about Marat


Frantz Funck-Brentano

His involvement with extreme right-wing politics also influenced his work; a major part of his Marat ou le mensonge des mots (1941) consists of a virulent attack on Marat, whom he describes as a "semite", riddled with classic antisemitic themes of the day.

Jean Servais

In the 1950s and 1960s, Servais rejoined the Renaud-Barrault theatre troupe for several plays, including La Répétition ou l'Amour puni (1950), Volpone (1955), and Marat/Sade (1966).

Leon Lissek

He has appeared in over 80 films in his career, which started with Marat/Sade.

Place du Carrousel

It bore an inscription: "To the spirit of the late Marat, 13 July, year I. From his underground tomb, he still makes the traitors tremble. A treacherous hand thwarted the affections of the people." There was also an exhibit of the famous hip bath of Marat and his desk where some of his most impassioned polemics were drafted.

On 2 August 1793, at the former site of the guillotine, a wooden pyramid was constructed as a tribute to Jean-Paul Marat.

The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse

The chorus of "We Are Normal" features the lyric "We are normal and we want our freedom", a reference to a line from the 1963 play "The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade," or "Marat/Sade" a line also quoted in "The Red Telephone", a song by American band, Love, on their 1967 album "Forever Changes".

The Gods Are Athirst

Fiercely Jacobin, Marat and Robespierre's most faithful adherent, Évariste Gamelin soon becomes a juror on the Revolutionary Tribunal.


Alberto Miralles

In 1979, he began to teach in the TAI School of Madrid, working with playwrights such as Adolfo Marsillach on Peter Weiss' Marat/Sade, which won the Premio Especial Ciclo del Teatro Latino, and Las arrecogías del beaterio de Santa María Egipciaca by José Martín Remember.

Catherine Sullivan

Five Economies (big hunt/little hunt) (2002) restages scenes from films including The Miracle Worker, Marat/Sade, Persona and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?.

Finnish coastal defence ship Ilmarinen

The Soviet Baltic Fleet was the obvious threat, and the Finnish vessels were meant to deter the largest Soviet ships, such as the battleships Marat and Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya, as well as the cruiser Kirov, from venturing too close to Finnish shores.

Jean-Louis Laya

This energetic protest against mob rule, with its scarcely veiled characterizations of Robespierre as Nomophage and of Marat as Duricrne, was an act of the highest courage, for the play was produced at the Théâtre Français (temporarily Théâtre de la Nation) only nineteen days before the execution of Louis XVI.

Kirov Academy of Ballet

Previous instructors include Marat Daukayev, Ludmilla Morkovina, Jacqueline Akhmedova, Lyubov Fominich, Rudolph Kharatian, Nikolai L. Morozov, Adrienne Dellas Thornton, Andrei Garbouz, Alla Sizova, Sasha Yapparov, Anatoli Kucheruk, Angelina Armeiskaya, and Vladimir Djouloukhadze.

Lenore Malen

The book's black and white photographs illustrate a range of influences – from the Kinsey Institute's archives, stills from Peter Weiss's 1967 theatrical production and film Marat/Sade and photographs by 19th-century French anatomist Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne de Boulogne, to the photographs of the l9th-century photographer Carleton Watkins.

Tatiana Navka

Navka has also partnered with Russian celebrities to compete in Channel One Russia ice shows: Stars On Ice, which she won with actor Marat Basharov, and Ice Age, in which she was runner-up with actor Ville Haapasalo.


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