723. JEAN-PAUL MARAT (1743 - 1793) French political theorist, a radical journalist and politician from the French Revolution. For two short months, leading up to the downfall of the Girondin faction in June, he was one of the three most important men in France, alongside Danton and Robespierre. He was stabbed to death in his bathtub by the Girondin sympathizer Charlotte Corday. Excessively rare, fine content A.D.S. "Marat", 1p. 8vo., [Paris], April 30 [1792], in French, to printers most Nicholas Feret, in French. In part: "...It is urgent today, before eight o'clock in the evening, [to print] three thousand leaflets: prepare yourself for their [?] and send them, and tomorrow send the rest..." Boldly signed, very good. Matted with a contemporary letter or provenance describing the note and calling Marat a "friend of the people", also with two French engravings of Marat and Corday on her way to the guillotine. $3,000 - 4,000