Editing Jean-Paul Marat (section)

===Family===
[[Image:Picswiss NE-21-25.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|[[Commemorative plaque]] on the house where Marat was born, in [[Boudry]] in [[Switzerland]]]] Jean-Paul Marat was born in [[Boudry]], in the Prussian [[Principality of Neuchâtel]] (now a [[Swiss cantons|canton]] of [[Switzerland]]), on 24 May 1743.<ref>[[#Belfort Bax|Belfort Bax]], p. 5.</ref> He was the first of five children born to Jean Mara (born Juan Salvador Mara; 1704–1783), a [[Sardinia]]n<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Mara |first1=Émile |title=L'origine et l'âme sardes de Jean-Paul Mara, dit Marat |journal=Annales historiques de la Révolution française |date=1964 |volume=175 |issue=175 |pages=78–84|doi=10.3406/ahrf.1964.3659 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Pillai |first1=Carlo |title=Le ascendenze sarde di Jean Paul Marat |journal=NOBILTA'. Rivista di Araldica, Genealogia, Ordini Cavallereschi |date=2005 |pages=505–512}}</ref> from [[Cagliari]], and Louise Cabrol (1724–1782), from [[Geneva]].<ref name=HDS>{{HDS|031228}}</ref> His father studied in Spain and Sardinia before becoming a [[Mercedarians|Mercedarian]] friar in 1720, at age 16, but at some point left the order and converted to [[Calvinism]], and in 1740 immigrated to the Protestant [[Republic of Geneva]]. His mother, who had [[Huguenot]] background from both sides of her family, was the daughter of French ''[[Wig#Manufacture|perruquier]]'' Louis Cabrol, originally from [[Castres]], [[Languedoc]], and Genevan citizen after 1723, and his wife Pauline-Catherine Molinier. Jean Mara and Louise Cabrol married on 19 March 1741 at the parish church of Le Petit-Saconnex, a district of Geneva.<ref name=Goetz>{{cite news|url=http://docplayer.fr/14907605-Jean-paul-marat-notice-generale-etapes-de-vie-action-journaux-livres-theorie-politique.html|author=Goëtz-Nothomb, Charlotte|language=fr|pages=5–6, 9|title=Jean-Paul Marat – Notice Generale}}</ref> One of Marat's brothers, David Mara (born in 1756), was a professor at the [[Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum]] in the [[Russian Empire]], where he had [[Alexander Pushkin]] as his student.<ref name=Goetz/>

Marat's family lived in moderate circumstances, as his father was well educated but unable to secure a stable profession. Marat credits his father for instilling in him a love of learning. He explains he felt "exceptionally fortunate to have had the advantage of receiving a very careful education in my paternal home."<ref>[[#Conner2012|Conner (2012)]], pp. 9–11</ref> From his mother, he claims to have been taught a strong sense of morality and social conscience. Marat left home at the age of 16, desiring to seek an education in France. He was aware of the limited opportunities for those seen as outsiders as his highly educated father had been turned down for several college (secondary) teaching posts. In 1754 his family settled in [[Neuchâtel]], capital of the Principality, where Marat's father began working as a [[tutor]].<ref name=HDS/>