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Jean Jaurès 1914

Source: L'Humanité, August 1, 1914;
Translated: for marxists.org by Mitch Abidor.

How did this horrible thing occur? It must be recounted.

The horrific scene must be fixed for history.

Jaurès had gone to the newspaper’s offices shortly before 8:00. He was coming from the ministry of foreign affairs where, delegated by the Socialist group, he had seen M.

René Viviani.

Jean jaures assassination of abraham

Renaudel and Longuet accompanied him.

He spoke briefly with our administrator Philippe Landrieu and some of our friends. He hadn’t had dinner and had much work to do.

“Let’s go eat,” one of us said.

“Let’s eat.”

We went to the restaurant Le Croissant, two steps from L'Humanité, and we sat at a table to the left of the entrance.

Landrieu was seated to Jaurès’s right, Renaudel to his left. Also seated at the tragic table were Citizen Poisson, Amedée Dunois, Duc-Quercy, Daniel Renoult and his brother André, Georges Weil,