Commentary
The following is the scathing description by 19th-century Scottish encyclopedist Robert Chambers of newspaper publisher Jean-Paul Marat, one of the primary figures in the French Revolution:
“The Death of Marat” by Guillaume-Joseph Roques (1793). Public Domain
Gerry Bowler
Author
Gerry Bowler is a Canadian historian and a senior fellow of the Frontier Centre for Public Policy.
