Q 01/05

Which young woman from Normandy killed Jean-Paul Marat in his bath on 13 July 1793?

A) Olympe de Gouges

B) Madame Roland

C) Charlotte Corday

D) Théroigne de Méricourt

Answer · why

C) Charlotte Corday

Charlotte Corday talked her way in by promising news of fugitive Girondin deputies. She made no attempt to flee afterwards and went to the guillotine ...

Q 02/05

Which chronic ailment kept Jean-Paul Marat soaking in a medicinal bath for much of the day in 1793?

A) A skin disease

B) Rheumatic fever

C) Tuberculosis

D) A war wound

Answer · why

A) A skin disease

A skin disease that itched and blistered drove him into the tub, where he wrote and received visitors. A 2020 DNA study of a bloodstained page from th...

Q 03/05

Which painter, who also organised Jean-Paul Marat's funeral, created the famous 1793 canvas The Death of Marat?

A) Eugène Delacroix

B) Jacques-Louis David

C) Théodore Géricault

D) Jean-Honoré Fragonard

Answer · why

B) Jacques-Louis David

Jacques-Louis David was a friend and fellow deputy, and he lit the dead man like a Christian martyr. The picture then sat in obscurity for half a cent...

Q 04/05

Which newspaper did Jean-Paul Marat launch in 1789, a title that soon became his own nickname?

A) Le Père Duchesne

B) Le Vieux Cordelier

C) Le Patriote français

D) L'Ami du peuple

Answer · why

D) L'Ami du peuple

L'Ami du peuple means The Friend of the People, and it ran to nearly 700 issues. When no printer would touch his fiercest attacks, Marat set up a pres...

Q 05/05

In which present-day country was Jean-Paul Marat, a leading voice of the French Revolution, born in 1743?

A) Switzerland

B) Netherlands

C) Luxembourg

D) France

Answer · why

A) Switzerland

Switzerland is home to Boudry, the small town where he was born with the surname Mara. He added the final t later to make the name look French.