Jean-Paul Marat

:For other uses of Marat, see Marat (disambiguation).

Life

Childhood and education

The eldest child of Jean Paul Marat, a native of Cagliari in Sardinia, and Louise Cabrol of Geneva, Marat was born at Boudry, in the principality of Neuchâtel, on May 24, 1743. His father was a designer, who had abandoned his country and his religion; his mother was a Swiss Protestant. On his mother's death in 1759 Marat set out on his travels, and spent two years at Bordeaux in the study of medicine, whence be moved to Paris, where he made use of his knowledge of his two favorite sciences, optics and electricity, to subdue an obstinate disease of the eyes. After some years in Paris he went to Holland, and then on to London, where he practiced his profession.

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Cagliari - Sardinia - Geneva - Boudry - Neuchâtel - May 24 - 1743 - Protestant - Bordeaux - Paris - Optics - Electricity - Holland - London

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