Friend of the people/enemy of the people

Title: Friend of the people/enemy of the people

Writer: Jeannick Vangansbeke

Binding: Paperback

EAN: 9789463380652

Condition: Good

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Description:
"Marat, born in Switzerland, a writer without talent, a scholar without a name, crazy about fame without having been given the means by society or nature to distinguish himself, took revenge for everything that was great. He hated genius as much as he hated aristocracy. Wherever he saw something that stood out above the rest, or that shone, he persecuted it like an enemy. He would have preferred to bring all of creation to the same level," according to A. De Lamartine. In this book, Marat is given the opportunity to respond. Did he only love equality in the Revolution? Who did he speak on behalf of? Did he lead a hidden life, in a cellar or in hiding places because only there was he beyond the reach of dagger and poison? Marat's murderess also gets to speak. Did Charlotte Corday deliberately commit suicide by attacking him in the heart of Paris? Jeannick Vangansbeke wrote biographies of Herzl, Offenbach, Hirohito, Napoleon III and Grétry. For the first time he gives the floor to the historical characters themselves