Jean Jaurès

French / Occitan Socialist leader (1859-1914)

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Jean Jaurès was a French and Occitan Socialist leader who lived from 1859 to 1914 and played a significant role in French politics during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He matters because he was a major figure in the development of French socialism during a transformative period in European history.

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Born: 1859-09-03
Died: 1914-07-31
Works: 35

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Country: DE

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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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