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Image: Triomphe de Marat

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Description: Jean-Paul Marat with crown of laurel leaves carried on shoulders of man around whom others are crowded; celebrating his acquittal by Revolutionary Tribunal.

Etching with watercolor.

Translation:

Top: Marat's triumph

Left: new song: there is only one black heart to be contradicted Marat lives Marat lives Etc.

Right: Judgment of the revolutionary tribunal: it declares Paul Marat innocent and orders him to be freed immediately.

Bottom: immotal defender of the people and their rights, he overthrew the nobles and the monarchy, founded equality upon the king’s fall out of civic virtue--let us offer him laurels.
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