See also:JEAN See also:LEON See also:JAURES (1859- )
, See also:French Socialist See also:leader, was See also:born at See also:Castres (See also:Tarn) on the 3rd of See also:September 1859
.
He was educated at the lycee See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis-le-See also:Grand and the ecole normale superieure, and took his degree as See also:associate in See also:philosophy in 1881
.
After teaching philosophy for two years at the lycee of See also:Albi (Tarn), he lectured at the university of See also:Toulouse
.
He was elected republican See also:deputy for the See also:department of Tarn in 1885
.
In 1889, after unsuccessfully contesting Castres, he returned to his professional duties at Toulouse, where he took an active See also:interest in municipal affairs, and helped to found the medical See also:faculty of the university
.
He also prepared two theses for his doctorate in philosophy, De primis socialismi germanici lineamentis apud Lutherum, See also:Kant, See also:Fichte et See also:Hegel (1891), and De la realite du monde sensible
.
In 1902 he gave energetic support to the miners of Carmaux who went out on strike in consequence of the dismissal of a socialist workman, Calvignac; and in the next See also:year he was re-elected to the chamber as deputy for Albi
.
Although he was defeated at the See also:election§ of 1898 and was for four years outside the chamber, his eloquent speeches made him a force in politics as an intellectual See also:champion of See also:socialism
.
He edited the Petite Republique, and was one of the most energetic defenders of See also:Captain See also:Alfred See also:Dreyfus
.
He approved of the inclusion of M
.
See also:Millerand, the socialist, in the Waldeck-See also:Rousseau See also:ministry, though this led, to a split with the more revolutionary See also:section led by M
.
See also:Guesde
.
In 1902 he was again returned as deputy for Albi, and during the See also:Combes See also:administration his See also:influence secured the coherence of the See also:radical-socialist See also:coalition known as the bloc
.
In 1904 he founded the socialist See also:paper, L'Humanite
.
The French socialist See also:groups held a See also:congress at See also:Rouen in See also:March 1905, which resulted in a new consolidation; the new party, headed by MM
.
See also:Jaures and Guesde, ceased to co-operate with the radicals and radical-socialists, and became known as the unified socialists, pledged to advance a collectivist See also:programme
.
At the See also:general elections of 1906 M
.
Jaures was again elected for the Tarn
.
His ability and vigour were now generally recognized; but the strength of the socialist party, and the See also:practical activity of its leader, still had to reckon with the equally practical and vigorous liberalism of M
.
See also:Clemenceau
.
The latter was able to See also:appeal to his countrymen (in a notable
speech in the See also:spring of r906) to rally to a radical programme which had no socialist See also:Utopia in view; and the See also:appearance in him of a strong and practical radical leader had the result of considerably diminishing the effect of the socialist propaganda
.
M
.
Jaures, in addition to his daily journalistic activity, published See also:Les preuves; aJaire Dreyfus (1900); See also:Action socialiste (1899); Etudes socialistes (1902), and, with other collaborators, Histoire socialiste (1901), &c
.
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