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Who was Jean Jaurès | History of France
Wherever you go in France you’re sure to come across a Place Jean Jaurès, a rue Jean Jaurès, Avenue Jean Jaurès, schools and even metro stations of that name in Paris and Lyon.
Every French school child will learn about Jean Jaurès. He is one of the most well-known figures of French history, though he is hardly known outside his home country.
Who was Jean Jaurès
Born 1859 in the Tarn region, Jean Jaurès became one of the most celebrated figures of French history, a social thinker, anti-war campaigner and politician. A man who has left his mark on French culture.
He was famous for his eloquent speeches, for standing up for workers’ rights and as one of the founding members and leader of the French Socialist Party, the forerunner to France’s Socialist Party. He also founded the socialist newspaper L’Humanité, still sold today.
On a Friday evening July 31, 1914, a 29-year-old French nationalist by the name of Raoul Villain arrived at the Café du Croissant. It’s still there, at 146 Rue Montmartre, Paris. He pulled a pistol fr
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Jean Jaurès
French Socialist leader (1859–1914)
Auguste Marie Joseph Jean Léon Jaurès (3 September 1859 – 31 July 1914), commonly referred to as Jean Jaurès (French:[ʒɑ̃ʒɔʁɛs]ⓘ; Occitan: Joan Jaurés[dʒuˈandʒawˈɾes]), was a French socialist leader. Initially a Moderate Republican, he later became a social democrat and one of the first possibilists (the reformist wing of the socialist movement) and in 1902 the leader of the French Socialist Party, which opposed Jules Guesde's revolutionary Socialist Party of France. The two parties merged in 1905 in the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO). An antimilitarist, he was assassinated in 1914 at the outbreak of World War I but remains one of the main historical figures of the French Left. As a heterodox Marxist, Jaurès rejected the concept of the dictatorship of the proletariat and tried to conciliate idealism and materialism, individualism and collectivism, democracy and class struggle, and patriotism and internationalism.[1][need quotation to verify]
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Spartacus Educational
Grave as is the international situation even the probable imminence of war has been overshadowed for the moment in Paris by the appalling crime this evening of which I was an eye-witness. It is impossible to one who knew M. Jaures, whom one could not help loving, to write about it calmly with the grief fresh upon one. I was dining with a member of my family and a friend at the Cafe du Croissant, the well-known resort of journalists in the Rue Montmartre close to many newspaper offices including that of the Humanite. M. Jaures was also dining there with some Socialist deputies and members of the staff of the Humanite. He came in later than we did. I spoke to him just as he entered and had a short conversation with him about the prospects of war and peace. Like everyone else, he feared that war was probable, but he still had some faith that Sir Edward Grey might succeed in inducing Germany to be conciliatory. If some sort of conference could be arranged, he thought, peace might even yet be secured; and if the French Government would bring pressure to bear on
Spartacus Educational
Grave as is the international situation even the probable imminence of war has been overshadowed for the moment in Paris by the appalling crime this evening of which I was an eye-witness. It is impossible to one who knew M. Jaures, whom one could not help loving, to write about it calmly with the grief fresh upon one. I was dining with a member of my family and a friend at the Cafe du Croissant, the well-known resort of journalists in the Rue Montmartre close to many newspaper offices including that of the Humanite. M. Jaures was also dining there with some Socialist deputies and members of the staff of the Humanite. He came in later than we did. I spoke to him just as he entered and had a short conversation with him about the prospects of war and peace. Like everyone else, he feared that war was probable, but he still had some faith that Sir Edward Grey might succeed in inducing Germany to be conciliatory. If some sort of conference could be arranged, he thought, peace might even yet be secured; and if the French Government would bring pressure to bear on
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