The author of The Chains of Slavery and A Philosophical Essay on Man, he was nearly deified after his death and placed in the Pantheon, although his body was removed after the Thermidorian reaction.
Despite his essay on gonorrhea and a translation of Newton's Opticks, he was never admitted to the Academy of Sciences. The author of The Chains of Slavery and A Philosophical Essay on Man, he was nearly deified after his death and placed in the Pantheon, although his body was removed after the Thermidorian reaction. While he showed a sympathetic attitude to the monarchy in "Offering to Our Country," he radically shifted his tone and attacked the Girondins. The publisher of The Friend of the People, he was in a medicinal bath combating his skin disease when he was visited by Charlotte Corday. For 10 points, name this radical French revolutionary whose death was depicted by Jacques-Louis David.
Despite his essay on gonorrhea and a translation of Newton's Opticks, he was never admitted to the Academy of Sciences.
Jean-Paul {Marat}