Marat was wildly popular with the sans-cullottes, the radical Cordeliers, the mob. He was less than socially acceptable, though. In the words of Stanley Loomis, "in that sick and twitching face seemed written the past suffering and the approaching vengeance of all the beaten, rejected and despised. Dressed in greasy rags, caked with filth, wracked by disease, Marat made the strongest tremble and the boldest keep his distance. It was noticed that even the men of his own party chose not to sit too close to the reeking and unwashed figure of their leader, whose skin was covered by..., rumored among the ignorant to be, in fact, leprosy." I can't bring myself to include the description of his skin. You get the idea.
Marat was wildly popular with the sans-cullottes, the radical Cordeliers, the mob. He was less than socially acceptable, though. In the words of Stanley Loomis, "in that sick and twitching face seemed written the past suffering and the approaching vengeance of all the beaten, rejected and despised. Dressed in greasy rags, caked with filth, wracked by disease, Marat made the strongest tremble and the boldest keep his distance. It was noticed that even the men of his own party chose not to sit too close to the reeking and unwashed figure of their leader, whose skin was covered by..., rumored among the ignorant to be, in fact, leprosy." I can't bring myself to include the description of his skin. You get the idea.
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