<P> A bronze sculpture of Marat was removed from Parc des Buttes Chaumont and was melted down, during the Nazi occupation of Paris . </P> <P> His memory lived on in the Soviet Union . Marat became a common name, and Marat Fjord in Severnaya Zemlya was named after him . Russian battleship Petropavlovsk (Russian: Петропавловск) was renamed Marat in 1921 . A street in the centre of Sevastopol was named after Marat (Russian: Улица Марата) on 3 January 1921, shortly after the Bolsheviks took over the city . </P> <P> Described during his time as a man "short in stature, deformed in person, and hideous in face," Marat has long been noted for physical irregularities . The nature of Marat's debilitating skin disease, in particular, has been an object of ongoing medical interest . Dr. Josef E. Jelinek noted that his skin disease was intensely itchy, blistering, began in the perianal region, and was associated with weight loss leading to emaciation . He was sick with it for the three years prior to his assassination, and spent most of this time in his bathtub . There were various minerals and medicines that were present in his bath while he soaked to help ease the pain caused by the disease . The bandana that is seen wrapped around his head was soaked in vinegar to reduce the severity of his discomfort . Jelinek's diagnosis is dermatitis herpetiformis . </P> <P> After Marat's death, his wife may have sold his bathtub to her journalist neighbour, as it was included in an inventory of his possessions . The royalist de Saint - Hilaire bought the tub, taking it to Sarzeau, Morbihan in Brittany . His daughter, Capriole de Saint - Hilaire inherited it when he died in 1805 and she passed it on to the Sarzeau curé when she died in 1862 . A journalist for Le Figaro tracked down the tub in 1885 . The curé then discovered that selling the tub could earn money for the parish, yet the Musée Carnavalet turned it down because of its lack of provenance as well as its high price . The curé approached Madame Tussaud's waxworks, who agreed to purchase Marat's bathtub for 100,000 francs, but the curé's acceptance was lost in the mail . After rejecting other offers, including one from Phineas Barnum, the curé sold the tub for 5,000 francs to the Musée Grévin, where it remains today . The tub was in the shape of an old - fashioned high - buttoned shoe and had a copper lining . </P>

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