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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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Giordano Mastrocola, an associate researcher at the University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès, has also identified important political contexts that magnified Vicentino’s influence.

From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2023

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

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

At first the Guesdists remained indifferent, while Jaurès, with great energy, threw himself into the contest in behalf of Dreyfus.

From Socialism and Democracy in Europe by Samuel P. Orth

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