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Jaurès

American  
[zhaw-res] / ʒɔˈrɛs /

noun

  1. Jean Léon 1859–1914, French socialist and writer.


Jaurès British  
/ ʒɔrɛs /

noun

  1. 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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In France, as the war approached, the socialist leader Jean Jaurès was increasingly concerned about how it would affect the French people.

From Textbooks Dec. 14, 2022

“We spent 15 years excavating this layer,” says Ludovic Slimak, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Toulouse, Jean Jaurès.

From Science Magazine Feb. 8, 2022

The Quartier Gauthier is a high-end shopping strip, with designer furniture stores, galleries, salons and international boutiques like Hugo Boss clustered along Rue Jean Jaurès.

From New York Times Dec. 24, 2014

Jaurès, like his fellow-radical Gambetta, grasped that a social revolution without popular legitimacy was not a social revolution at all but yet another coup, sure to insure the next in the opposite direction.

From The New Yorker Dec. 15, 2014

This was Jean Jaurès, a professor of philosophy, whose profound knowledge and superb oratory immediately commanded attention.

From Socialism and Democracy in Europe by Orth, Samuel P.

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