biography
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Jaurès, (Auguste Marie Joseph) Jean
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pronunciation:
[zhohres]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1859–1914)
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| biography:
| Socialist leader, writer, and orator, born in Castres, S France. He lectured on philosophy at Toulouse, became a deputy (1885), co-founded the Socialist paper L'Humanité (1904), and was the main figure in the founding of the French Socialist Party. He was assassinated in Paris while advocating reconciliation with Germany. |
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