Jaurès

[ zhaw-res ]

/ ʒɔˈrɛs /

noun

Jean Lé·on

[zhahn ley-awn] /ʒɑ̃ leɪˈɔ̃/, 1859–1914, French socialist and writer.

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Examples from the Web for jaures

The Russian, who was well up in advanced politics, was just explaining the plans advanced by Jaures.
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse|Vicente Blasco Ibanez
Jaures had just been shot, the syndicalists were wrecking German milk shops, and at night the streets had noisy mobs.
Golden Lads|Arthur Gleason and Helen Hayes Gleason
Within a month Jaures was shot and Socialists the world over became blood-blinded.
The Sequel|George A. Taylor
The slayer of Jaures was recklessly acquitted: the would-be slayer of M. Clemenceau was carefully found guilty.
Heartbreak House|George Bernard Shaw

This is quite a different position from that taken by Lafargue in his fight with Jaures.
Feuerbach: The roots of the socialist philosophy|Frederick Engels

British Dictionary definitions for jaures

Jaurès

/ (French ʒɔrɛs) /

noun

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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