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Jean Jaurès
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French / Occitan Socialist leader (1859-1914)
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Jean Jaurès was a French politician, professor, journalist, and writer. Born Auguste Marie Joseph Jean Léon Jaurès in Castres in 1859, he was educated at the École Normale Supérieure, Lycée Louis-le-Grand, and Collège Sainte-Barbe. He held the position of president and served as a member of the French National Assembly. A member of the French Section of the Workers' International, he worked for L'Humanité, La Dépêche du Midi, and the University of Toulouse. His field of work included philosophy, and he spoke Latin, Esperanto, and French.
Jaurès authored thirty-five works, including the multi-volume Histoire Socialiste de la France Contemporaine. He received the Concours général award. He died by homicide in Paris on July 31, 1914, at the hands of Raoul Villain. His remains are buried at the Panthéon in Chaudun. His archives are held at the Archives nationales. He is described in sources such as the Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron and the Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 35
Top works
- Histoire Socialiste de la France Contemporaine - Tome III
- Histoire Socialiste, Tome 2
- Histoire Socialiste, Tome 7
- Histoire Socialiste, Tome 6
- Histoire Socialiste, Tome 5
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Castres
- Place of death
- Paris
- Occupation
- reporter
- Position held
- president
- Educated at
- Collège Sainte-Barbe
- Political party
- French Section of the Workers' International
- Languages spoken
- French
- Award
- Concours général
- Field of work
- philosophy
- Image
- Monument Jaures.jpg
- Work location
- Paris
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- killed by
- Raoul Villain
- place of burial
- Chaudun
- Commons category
- Jean Jaurès
- date of birth
- 1859-09-03
- date of death
- 1914-07-31
- manner of death
- homicide
- Commons Creator page
- Jean Jaurès
- described by source
- New International Encyclopedia
- birth name
- Auguste Marie Joseph Jean Léon Jaurès
- Commons gallery
- Jean Jaurès
- archives at
- Archives nationales
- writing language
- French
- cause of death
- Assassination of Jean Jaurès
- name in native language
- Jean Jaurès
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Works in European collections
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Encyclopedic overview
Auguste Marie Joseph Jean Léon Jaurès (3 September 1859 – 31 July 1914), commonly referred to as Jean Jaurès ( French: [ʒɑ̃ ʒɔʁɛs] ; Occitan: Joan Jaurés [dʒuˈan dʒawˈɾes]), 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 into 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.
Early career
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