Jean Jaurès
1859 – 1914 · aged 55
French / Occitan socialist leader (1859-1914)
- Born
- 3 Sept 1859 · Castres
- Died
- 31 Jul 1914 · Paris
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- 3 Sept 1859BornBorn in Castres
- 1893 – 1898RoleMember of the French National Assembly
- 1902 – 1914RoleMember of the French National Assembly
- 1902 – 1905RolePresident
- 31 Jul 1914DiedDied in Paris
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Major world events during their lifetime (1859 – 1914).
- 1870 – 1871Franco-Prussian War
- 18961896 Summer Olympics
- 1898Spanish–American War
- 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
- 1914 – 1918World War I
Biography
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.
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