| Jean-Paul Marat was who the painting By J.L Davies is about; |
AKA Jean-Paul Mara
Birthplace: Boudry, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Location of death: Paris, France
Cause of death: Assassination
Remains: Buried, Saint Etienne-du-Mont, Paris, France
Gender: Male
Religion: Protestant
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Activist, Government, Doctor
Nationality: France
Executive summary: French revolutionary
With recent events in Nth Africa and the middle east, has this group thought about looking at the whole theme of revolution more broadly? There's a huge amount of interesting writing about the Egyptian revolution by writers such as Robert Fisk (journalist for the Independent - he writes for it nearly every day at the moment) available online and in the press.
ReplyDeleteDon't forget, the idea is to back and forward in time from this starting point. I like the fact that there's quite a bit of material on this blog referring to revolution - and there are important and inspiring ones that are happening right now!
There are current very striking images of those that have died in the last couple of of months - maybe the most iconic one being Mohammed Bouazizi - see also the attempted (and brutally repressed) Iranian revolution in 2009 - its icon was Neda, assassinated by the state.