Jean-Paul Marat / 让-保罗·马拉
Jean-Paul Marat / 让-保罗·马拉 is the central figure in 125. 马拉之死：卑鄙的暗杀，或正义的处决？. The episode treats him as a revolutionary journalist and [[JacobinClub|Jacobin]] agitator whose later saintly image depends heavily on [[JacquesLouisDavid|Jacques-Louis David]]’s [[DeathOfMaratPainting|The Death of Marat]].
The source deliberately strips away that saintly image. Marat appears as a doctor and frustrated would-be scientist, a publisher of L’Ami du peuple, an enemy-maker who denounced opponents as traitors, and one of the major encouragers of the [[SeptemberMassacres|September Massacres]]. His conflict with [[AntoineLavoisier|Antoine Lavoisier]] also lets the episode connect revolutionary politics to Science Under Revolutionary Suspicion / 革命怀疑下的科学.
His murder by [[CharlotteCorday|Charlotte Corday]] becomes the episode’s test case for Political Assassination Ethics / 政治刺杀伦理. The source does not excuse murder, but it argues that Corday’s stated motive cannot be reduced to madness, manipulation, romance, or royalism.
Connections
- Charlotte Corday / 夏洛特·科黛 - assassin and political opponent.
- French Revolution / 法国大革命, Jacobin Club / 雅各宾俱乐部, and September Massacres / 九月屠杀 - revolutionary setting and violence.
- The Death of Marat / 《马拉之死》, Jacques-Louis David / 雅克-路易·大卫, and Revolutionary Martyrdom Image-Making / 革命殉道图像制造 - visual afterlife.
- Antoine Lavoisier / 拉瓦锡 and Science Under Revolutionary Suspicion / 革命怀疑下的科学 - science conflict.
- Political Assassination Ethics / 政治刺杀伦理 and Revolutionary Terror Politics / 革命恐怖政治 - conceptual frames around his death and politics.