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Jean Jaurès, (born September 3, 1859, Castres, France—died July 31, 1914, Paris), French socialist leader, cofounder of the newspaper L’Humanité, and member of the French Chamber of Deputies (1885–89, 1893–98, and 1902–14); he achieved the unification of several factions into a single socialist party, the Section Française de l ...

Pour les autres membres de la famille, voir Jaurès . Cet article possède un paronyme, voir Jean Laurès . (photographie de Nadar) . Jean Jaurès ( [ʒɑ̃ ʒo.ʁɛs] a ), né le 3 septembre 1859 à Castres ( Tarn) et mort assassiné le 31 juillet 1914 à Paris, est un homme politique français .

Nationalism. The murder of Jean Jaurès, French deputy for Tarn and Socialist politician, took place on Friday, July 31, 1914, at 9:40 pm, as he dined at the Café du Croissant on rue Montmartre in Paris's 2nd arrondissement, in the heart of the Republic of the Croissant, not far from the headquarters of his newspaper, L'Humanité.

Jean Jaurès, (born Sept. 3, 1859, Castres, France—died July 31, 1914, Paris), French socialist leader.

On Thursday, 100 years on from the assassination, France paid tribute to Jean Jaurès, a man who has left an indelible imprint on French society, politics and history.

Auguste Marie Joseph Jean Léon Jaurès , commonly referred to as Jean Jaurès , was a French Socialist leader. Initially a Moderate Republican, he later became one of the first social democrats and the leader of the French Socialist Party, which opposed Jules Guesde's revolutionary Socialist Party of France.

bibliography JAURÈS, JEAN (1859–1914), French politician. In the collective memory of the French, there are few who embody, as did Jean-Joseph-Marie-Auguste Jaurès, the faculty for being in politics and still considering political action as an ethical priority.

Jaurès was a towering figure in pre-World War I France, and he remains a political icon among French socialists to this day. One of his biographers described him this way: