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Jaurès

[ zhaw-res ]

noun

  1. Jean Lé·on [zhah, n, ley-, awn], 1859–1914, French socialist and writer.


Jaurès

/ ʒɔrɛs /

noun

  1. JaurèsJean Léon18591914MFrenchPOLITICS: politicianWRITING: 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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Such phrases as "Jaurès wrote me ten days before he died—" were frequent, but not too frequent, on her lips.

Jaurès's position as to present politics is based on the very opposite view.

In the Party Congresses, however, Jaurès is outvoted where a clear difference arises, an outcome he does his best to avoid.

The fact that it only lived for three months and was overthrown by Socialists was another crushing blow to Jaurès.

Jaurès referred to the British unionists as an example of the success of reformist tactics.

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