He is the king's bodyguard doctor. Marat is an embittered and solitary man, he writes alone his newspaper "L'Ami du Peuple" where his violent articles have notably encouraged the massacres of September. He works to defend the sans-culottes within the Cordeliers club. Once the republic was proclaimed, he played an important role in the fall of the Girondins. But he will not have time to make use of his popularity, he is murdered in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday. Very ugly, Marat had a skin disease, some like David say leprosy.
He was born in Edirne in Thrace. Son of Murad II, Ottoman sultan, he was sent at the age of twelve to Manisa with his guardians. It was in 1444 that his father abdicated in his favour, leaving him to face many crises. The King of Hungary then took advantage of his youth to launch a crusade against h