Jean jaures assassination games

1914 shooting of a French politician

The assassination of Jean Jaurès occurred on Friday 31 July 1914. Jaurès was a French deputy for the department of Tarn, a Socialist politician, a prominent antimilitarist, and editor of the newspaper L'Humanité.

He was attacked by Raoul Villain at 9:40 pm while he dined at the Café du Croissant on rue Montmartre in Paris's 2nd arrondissement, close to the newspaper's headquarters. Jaurès was hit by two gunshots: one bullet pierced his skull and killed him almost instantly.

Jean jaurès french revolution

Jean jaurès french revolution

ASSASSINATION.

Jean jaurès biography

An antimilitarist, Jaurès escapes an assassination attempt and becomes the figure of the refusal to the Union sacrée at the outbreak of the World War I.

Following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Jaurès shuttled between Germany.

Committed three days before France's entry into World War I, the murder ended Jaurès' campaign to prevent war in Europe in the aftermath of the assassination of Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. Following the death of Jaurès, the majority of the French political left rallied to the Sacred Union, including many socialists and trade unionists who had previously refused to support the war.

The Sacred Union ceased to exist in 1919 when Villai