Jean-Paul Marat

Jean-Paul Marat was the fiercest voice of the French Revolution, a journalist whose newspaper L'Ami du peuple made him an idol of the Paris streets — until Charlotte Corday stabbed him in his bath in 1793. His genome was recovered from bloodstains he left on the newspaper he was annotating at the moment of his death. It is one of the very few genomes obtained from paper rather than bone.

The genome-wide data behind this entry was published in Retrieving the genomes of Jean-Paul Marat from period paper.

Every Ancestrify Global25 report includes the free Notable Matches lens: your coordinates are compared to every sequenced member of every catalog entry, and the distance to the closest member is reported — a Euclidean distance in the same 25-dimensional space the Distance lens uses. Because this is a single real individual, not a population average, distances naturally run larger than population distances — that is expected, not a poor result. And one thing is never claimed: a small distance means similar ancestry composition, not that Jean-Paul Marat is your ancestor. See how it looks in the live demo or read about the full G25 analysis.

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  Who was Jean-Paul Marat?

  Jean-Paul Marat (1743–1793 CE, Paris, France) is one of the Historical figures entries in our Notable Matches catalog, represented by one sequenced ancient genome published in the study "Retrieving the genomes of Jean-Paul Marat from period paper".

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  What does "matching" Jean-Paul Marat mean?

  Your Global25 coordinates are compared to the entry's sequenced members and the distance to the closest one is reported — a Euclidean distance in the same 25-dimensional reference space the Distance lens uses. A notable entry is one person or one small burial group, not a population average, so distances naturally run larger than population distances.

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  Is Jean-Paul Marat my ancestor?

  No — and no DNA test can show that. A small distance means your genome sits near this individual's in a shared reference space: similar ancestry composition, not descent. Ancestrify never claims a notable individual is your ancestor or relative.

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  How do I see my own distance to Jean-Paul Marat?

  Notable Matches is a free lens on every Ancestrify Global25 report — never sold separately. Order the G25 analysis (29.99 EUR), and your report ranks your coordinates against the full catalog, with a portrait, dossier and map for every entry. The public demo shows the lens with example data.

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