Chains of slavery, 1774

The Chains of Slavery (1774), an attack on despotism addressed to British voters, in which Jean-Paul Marat first expounded the notion of an aristocratic, or court, plot; it would become the principal theme of a number of his articles.Jean-Paul Marat, French politician, physician, and journalist, a leader of the radical Montagnard faction during the French Revolution. He was assassinated in his bath by Charlotte Corday, a young Girondin conservative.