#marat

- Marat spends most of his time in the ocean water

- Danton and Robespierre get drinks and do fucking nothing together

- beach volleyball: Saint-Just, Camille vs Lucile and Eleonore

- Simonné and Jacques-Louis David tanning and talking about some bs

(Brissot, Saint-just, Danton, Robespierre, Desmoulins, Marat, Hébert)

+My Club Exhibition Artworks

The agitators, paid to raise a clamor against the patriots of the Cordeliers Club, were merely waiting for a pretext. Danton — the vigorous Danton — gave them one during the first intermission by keeping his hat on. Since no law forbade the wearing of hats, and no decree had enshrined the servile custom of remaining bareheaded when actors were not on stage, Danton saw no reason to obey the imperious commands of those automatons who sought to perpetuate this servile habit — a relic of the Ancien Régime. For a few days, I saw a multitude of deluded citizens siding against Danton; they loudly criticized him for wishing to exercise the rights of a free man, arguing that one must respect custom and avoid setting an example of insubordination. Good heavens! Had such a disastrous maxim always been followed, what people would ever have broken their chains, and how could we ourselves have cast off the yoke? Given the fatal inclination toward servitude found in almost all men, what would become of nations were there not, in their midst, a few bold spirits — men intrepid enough to trample upon the orders of despots, raise the standard of insurrection, assault the ramparts of tyranny, and be the first to storm the breach?

Marat in number 504 of l’Ami du Peuple (June 28 1791)

AKA the difference between Marat and Robespierre in a nutshell:

And finally, what if Marat were to return today? What could he think of the state of our planet in the second decade of the twenty-first century? He could read in the history books that the Great French Revolution—his Revolution—is recognized as the watershed event in the making of the modern world. “But what did it accomplish?” he might ask. “It rid France of a parasitic class whose right to rule was based upon aristocratic birthright and traditional privilege.” “Is that all?” “It established legal and political equality, which then spread throughout much of Europe and the world.” “Legal and political equality? What about economic and social equality?” “No, the situation in that regard is even worse than you remember it. Today, despite two centuries of mind-boggling technological progress, a handful of billionaires control most of the Earth’s resources while billions of people remain mired in hunger, disease, oppression, and grinding poverty.” Marat would surely be shocked and dismayed to learn that after more than 200 years his struggle for social revolution had lost none of its relevance and urgency. Where is the People’s Friend now, when we need him?

Jean-Paul Marat - Tribune of the French Revolution by Clifford D. Conner

“Marat ha muerto”. No, Marat no ha muerto. Colocadlo en el Panteón o arrojadlo a la cloaca: da igual; al día siguiente renace. Renace en el hombre sin trabajo, en la mujer sin pan, en la joven que se prostituye, en el niño que no aprende a leer; renace en las buhardillas de Ruan, renace en los sótanos de Lille; renace en el desván sin calefacción, en el jergón miserable y sin manta, en el desempleo, en el proletariado, en el burdel, en la colonia penal, en vuestros códigos legales despiadados, en vuestras escuelas sin horizontes; y se rehace de todo lo que es ignorancia, y se recompone de todo lo que es tiniebla. ¡Ah! Que la sociedad humana tome nota: a Marat solo se le puede matar matando a la miseria. Charlotte Corday no logró nada; mientras haya desgraciados, habrá una nube en el horizonte que podrá convertirse en fantasma, y ​​un fantasma que podrá convertirse en Marat.

—Víctor Hugo

I’m crazy

This cheese guy looks like Marat or is it just me 💀