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Hello all :D

I'm doing my coursework on the French Revolution--- the sanscullotte's role in the Terror, to be precise--- and I'm actually enjoying it an obscene amount. Really, my teacher yesterday was like 'this isn't your thesis, it's not your baby' which reveals the extent to which I like reading Robespierre.

But, anyway, can anyone lead me to some of Marat's work from L'Ami du Peuple etc. (or anything from 1792-4?). The only one I can seem to find is on marxists.org (surprise, surprise) and I need to analyse his language....Anything particularly angry or radical-ish is good.

Thanks :)

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kurotoshi.livejournal.com

*cough* first of all, he was killed July 13th 1793, so uh, can't really go past that and it also means that he wasn't even AROUND during la Terreur. And two) Anything particularly angry or radical-ish is good excuse me?! I have to ask, are you looking for ranting or actual substance, because he told the sans-culottes to calm the hell down when he got his seat at the commune. Also, his language in what way? You mean in the style he wrote? Easy - he was very theatrical in writting but also very proper. Marat was a highly educated man. He actually critizised some authors for writting poorly. Also, L'ami du people was an alter-ego of Marat. He associated himself with him - but he wasn't him.

three) and, uh, do you have any idea how many issues he published? At my old university, we had a collection of volumes of L'ami du peuple and it was 24 volumes long. I did a quick online search and found nothing, which isn't surprising, it's much too vast for someone to retype that. (hmm, I should consider it one day though) Each issue was about 16 pages each also.

and two) calling Marat a marxist is uuh, pushing it. The only reason people claim that is because Peter Weiss made him one in Marat/Sade, I have nothing against the Marxist movement, but yeah. >_>; How about we don't associate people with a mouvement they don't belong in.

Ugh, forgive me if I come off sounding like a pretencious jerk, but this completly rubbed me the wrong way. I did a dissertation on the sans-culottes mouvement (a whole 29 pages) and I'm looking for it right now and if I can find it - I'll give you the snippets of l'ami du peuple I'll let you know. I want to help you out with this, because dude, I love Marat, but PLEASE don't slap him in the same old box that most people do.

From:

molly-is-cosmic.livejournal.com

1) I know he was killed in 1793, it was a just a mistake when writing the question.
2) Seeing as this essay is 30% of my A-Level mark as a whole and I'm doing History at University this year, something with substance, as I've never considered him a radical zealot.
3) I never have considered Marat a marxist, I just know that many marxists and sympathetic marxist historians consider him to have some protoype marxist tendencies , so that was why I wasn't surprised to find a small collection of his writings at marxists.org.
4) I'm sorry if the way I phrased my question rubbed you the wrong way, but I have done my reading, and am not just 'slapping him in the same old box' because I plan to be as balanced as possible.

From:

kurotoshi.livejournal.com

1) Oh, alright :)
2) Aye! That's brutal! Glad to hear it!
4) bah, it's cool, I just really hope I don't come off as a total pretencious jerk ^^; but I am serious about my last offer, I've been digging through my things looking for my essay and if I find anything, I'll be sure to let you know. ~~Gah, I feel so mean!~~