Jean Jaurès was the third casualty of the First World War, after the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie, whose assassination on 28 June 1914 sparked off the chain of events which led to the conflict. Jaurès was a man who tried harder than anyone else to prevent the outbreak of war, but paid the price for his passionately-held internationalist beliefs when he was shot dead in a Paris café on 31 July 1914.
Jaurès was born in southwest France in 1859. After graduating from university in Paris, he worked as a secondary school teacher in Albi and then as a lecturer at Toulouse University. In 1885, he was elected an independent MP. Despite being defeated twice, in 1889 and 1898, he managed to secure reelection within a few years on each occasion.
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