LOCAL HISTORY: JEAN JAURES, POLITICIAN AND WRITER WHOSE OPPOSITION TO FRANCE’S DECLARATION OF WAR IN 1914 COST HIM HIS LIFE.
Gavin Porter gives an account of the life and achievements of the politician and writer Jean Jaures, the centenary of whose assassination was 31 July 1914.
JAURES’ EARLY YEARS
Jaures was born at Castres in the Tarn in 1859. He came from a petit bourgeois background and had the highest marks of those seeking entry to the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris in 1878. He was third in the teacher training degree for philosophy in 1881. (Philosophy is widely taught in French secondary schools.) As a result he became a philosophy teacher in a lycee in Albi in 1881.
Val says This is a Frenchman who fascinates me. Gavin has researched him and his findings will be published in the patrimoine label. Enjoy reading
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