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Iconic Socialist Jean Jaurès Tried to Keep France Out of WWI. It Cost Him His Life

On the evening of July 31, 1914, after their fruitless visit to the foreign ministry to argue for French neutrality in the coming war, Jean Jaurès and Jean Longuet (the grandson of Karl Marx) travelled by taxi to the offices

Iconic Socialist Jean Jaurès Tried to Keep France Out of WWI. It Cost Him His Life

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