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1793 ca, FRANCE: The German writer and philosopher ADAM LUX (1765-1793). Portrait engraved by F. Bonneville, Paris, 1796. On 21 March 1793, the Rhenish-German National Convention, the parliament of the Republic of Mainz, sent Adam Lux to Paris, to complete the planned accession to France. In Paris he met several German friends of freedom.On 17 July 1793 Lux witnessed the execution of the Girondist Charlotte Corday who had assassinated the radical agitator Jean-Paul Marat. With the publication of provoking pamphlets, in which he justified the killing as an act of liberation, he was apparently risking his life deliberately, although not all motives of his behavior at this time are comprehensible nowadays, especially those concerning his relation to Corday and her actions. After giving up the intention of publicly killing himself in front of the National Convention, in order to protest against the violence of revolutionary goals, he set out to be executed with guillotine by his former political friends. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe even based the first husband of Dorothea in his epic book" Hermann and Dorothea" (1798) on Lux

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