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Born on 3rd September 1859, Jean Jaurès was the leader of the French Socialist Party
Jean Jaurès, killed on the 31st of July, 1914, was one of the very first fatalities of the Great War.
But Jaurès wasn’t a soldier: he was an anti-war activist, and one of the leading socialists in France.
The son of a farmer, Jaurès was from Castres in the south of France. After excelling at school and university, he became a philosophy lecturer in Toulouse.
Jaurès’ fate, however, was not in academic philosophy, but in the world of politics.
Jaurès would've been 12 years old when the socialist Paris Commune took over the city in 1871.
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In 1885, he was elected as a Republican deputy to the French National Assembly for his home département of Tarn.
The French Republicans of the late-19th century were nothing like the US Republicans of today…
A Party spanning the centre to the centre-left, Jaurès was initially a moderate when he was elected.
But by the end of the 1880s, he had become an out-and-out Socialist.
A photograph of Jean Jaurès in 1904, ten years before his assassination.
The problem for the French Left was that there wasn’t one single socialist party. Marxism hadn’t yet developed a serious footh
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Jean jaures (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Exploring Great War History by Bike: The Lost Legacy for Peace of Jean Jaurès
‘Here, on 31st July 1914, Jean Jaurès was assassinated’.
Plaque on the Taverne du Croissant, Rue de Montmartre, Paris
By firing his shots through the window of the Taverne du Croissant where Jaurès, the Socialist leader, was dining with colleagues, the young nationalist Raoul Villain ended French efforts to avoid war with Germany.
Jean Jaurès [copyright unknown]
I had been cycling down the Aisne valley on Day-8 of a 1,500 km ride along WW1’s Western Front from the Belgian coast to the Swiss border.
After Ypres, Passchendaele and The Somme, I was searching for places described in the memoirs of Amédée Tardieu, my wife’s French grandfather and an artillery officer, and his brother Edmond’s grave.
Earlier that day I had visited the