Nicolas Sarkozy declared that his party was Jaurès's successor
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Auguste Marie Joseph Jean Léon Jaurès, commonly referred to as Jean Jaurès, was a French socialist leader. Initially a Moderate Republican, he later became a social democrat and one of the first possibilists 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 Worker…
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Born 3 September 1859 · Died 31 July 1914 · Q12688
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Nicolas Sarkozy declared that his party was Jaurès's successor
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The newly elected President François Mitterrand placed a rose at Jaurès's tomb in the Panthéon on the day of his inauguration ceremony
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Died 1914-07-31.
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At the outbreak of World War I but remains one of the main historical figures of the French Left
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Opposed Émile Driant's Three-Year Service Law, which implemented a draft period, and tried to promote understanding between France and Germany
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Into the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO)
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Founded the socialist paper L'Humanité
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The leader of the French Socialist Party, which opposed Jules Guesde's revolutionary Socialist Party of France
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Career landmark: president (1902–1905).
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Career landmark: member of the French National Assembly (1902–1914).
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Jaurès returned as deputy for Albi
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Career landmark: member of the French National Assembly (1893–1898).
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The miners of Carmaux went on strike over the dismissal of their leader, Jean Baptiste Calvignac
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After unsuccessfully contesting the Castres seat, this time under the banner of Socialism, he returned to his professional duties at Toulouse, where he took an active interest in municipal affairs and helped to found the
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Sitting alongside the moderate Opportunist Republicans, opposed both to Georges Clemenceau's Radicals and to the Socialists
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Ending up third, and then taught philosophy for two years at the Albi lycée before lecturing at the University of Toulouse
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Born 1859-09-03.
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