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Jaurès
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Jau·rès  (zhô-rs), Jean 1859-1914.
French journalist and leader of the French Socialist Party before World War I. In 1914 he argued for arbitration rather than armed conflict between the Triple Entente and the Triple Alliance. Jaurès was assassinated by a fanatical nationalist.

Jaurès (French) [ʒɔrɛs]
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(Biographies / Jaurès, Jean Léon (1859-1914) M, French, POLITICS: politician, WRITING: writer) Jean Léon (ʒɑ̃ leɔ̃). 1859-1914, French politician and writer, who founded the socialist paper l'Humanité (1904), and united the French socialist movement into a single party (1905); assassinated


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If former Culture Minister Jack Lang, who is Jewish, has his way, Dreyfus' remains will be moved from the family tomb in Paris' Montparnasse cemetery to the majestic Pantheon building in the heart of the Latin Quarter, resting place of such distinguished figures as Emile Zola and Jean Jaures, his two greatest defenders.
Elsewhere, he dreams of the day when our descendants "will think of Saint Agnes and Rosa Luxemburg, Saint Francis and Eugene Debs, Father Damien and Jean Jaures, as members of a single movement.
106) Jean Jaures, commenting on a weavers' strike in the Nord in 1903, remarked: "Begging is the natural complement of the (low) wage.
 
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