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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

Jaurès had been speaking out in favor of pacifism for many years and had opposed France’s three-year conscription law in 1913.

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

Admiral Jaurès having already resigned many people think W. will be the next Ambassador, but he certainly won't come.

From Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 by Mary King Waddington

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