Jean-Paul Marat - The Peoples Friend
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JEAN - PAUL MARAT- THE PEOPLES FRIEND by ERNEST BELFORT BAX. CHAPTER I: MARATS EARLY YEARS. JEAN-PAUL MARAT, or Mara, the t having been added to give the name a French look, was born at the village of Boudry, on the lake of Neuchatel, the present Swiss canton of that name being then a fief of the Prussian crown. The register of his birth and baptism is as follows Jean-Paul Mara, son of M. Jean-Paul Mara, proselyte of Cagliari, in Sardinia, and of Mme. Louise Cabrol, of Geneva, was born on the 24th of May, and has been baptized on the 8th of June, 1743, having no godfather and having for godmother Mme. Cabrol, grandmother of the infant. His father thus belonged to the popu lation of mixed race and Italian speech inhabit ing one of the most interesting insular seats of early European civilisation. He was made a citizen of Geneva on the loth of March 1741, having renounced his hereditary faith in favour of the Calvinism of his adopted city. The name Mara, taken in conjunction with his native country, suggests some interesting EARLY YEARS 17 ever, and called himself M. de Boudry, after his native place. The elder sister Marie was born at Boudry in 1746. The year after his marriage, the elder Mara, having obtained a position in a manufactory of Indian stuffs at Boudry, near the town of Neu chatel, as designer or chemist, or possibly in both capacities, migrated thither with his wife. His employment for some reason or other com ing to an end, he moved in 1754 to the neigh bouring town of Neuchatel. The registers at this place for that year contain a notice to the effect that the sieur Jean Mara, native of Cagliari in Sardinia, proselyte, designer, and master of the Italian and Spanish languages, having sought the right of domicile in the town, his request was adjourned for authentic certificates of his good - conduct. These must have proved satisfactory, as we shortly after wards find him admitted as an inhabitant with full rights. His occupation now was that of profess
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