What the records say
- When
- 31 Jul 1914
- Kind
- Murder
- Coordinates
- 48.87° N, 2.34° E
- Description
- 1914 shooting of a French politician
Assassination of Jean Jaurès
1914 shooting of a French politician
The assassination of Jean Jaurès occurred on Friday 31 July 1914. Jean Jaurès was a French deputy for the department of Tarn, a Socialist politician, a prominent antimilitarist, and editor of the newspaper L'Humanité. He was attacked by Raoul Villain at 9:40 pm while he dined at the Café du Croissant on rue Montmartre in Paris's 2nd arrondissement, close to the newspaper's headquarters.
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