Character Catalog

A monumental multi-volume work that reinterprets the French Revolution through the lens of socialism. Jaurès demonstrates how social struggles run throughout the entire revolutionary period.

A series of articles published in La Petite République, in which Jaurès methodically proves the innocence of Captain Dreyfus and exposes the military conspiracy. A courageous and decisive act in the Dreyfus Affair.

An essay in which Jaurès proposes replacing the professional army with a defensive citizens' militia. He develops his vision of a national defence compatible with pacifist and republican ideals.

Jaurès creates this socialist daily, which quickly becomes an influential press organ. He shapes it into a space for intellectual debate and political mobilisation in the service of the workers' cause.

A major political achievement by Jaurès, who succeeds in unifying the divided French socialist factions into a single party, the French Section of the Workers' International.

Jaurès's doctoral thesis in philosophy, reflecting his rigorous intellectual formation. He develops a materialist and idealist conception of reality that would serve as the foundation of his later political thought.

War lies at the heart of all things, as death lies at the heart of life. But just as life can be long and beautiful despite the death that ends it, so too can societies live long in peace despite the possibility of war.

The whole truth must be told. Light must be shed. And if the government, if the military commanders have failed, they must be judged.

Courage means seeking the truth and speaking it; it means not submitting to the law of triumphant lies that pass, and not echoing with our soul, our mouth, and our hands the imbecile applause and fanatical jeers.

This newspaper will be that of all republicans, all socialists, all those who want social justice and peace among peoples. We have no other ambition than to be useful.

The French Revolution is the highest form ever reached by the political life of peoples. It affirmed at once the rights of the individual and the sovereignty of the nation.

Birthplace of Jean Jaurès, where he was born on September 3, 1859. A Jean Jaurès museum is now dedicated there to his life and work.

It is at the Palais Bourbon that Jaurès delivered his great parliamentary speeches, defending workers, opposing war, and fighting social injustices.

Restaurant located on rue Montmartre in Paris, where Jaurès was assassinated on July 31, 1914 by Raoul Villain while he was dining with collaborators from L'Humanité.

Mining town for which Jaurès was elected deputy in 1893. He actively supported the miners' and glassworkers' strikes, forging his identity as a defender of the working class.

Jaurès collaborated extensively with this major regional republican daily newspaper, through which he spread his Dreyfusard and socialist ideas throughout the south-west of France.

Jaurès is famous for his fiery speeches at the Chamber of Deputies. The tribune is his preferred ground for defending workers' rights and opposing unjust laws.

As much a journalist as a politician, Jaurès wrote daily articles for L'Humanité and La Dépêche de Toulouse, producing a considerable body of written work throughout his career.

Founded by Jaurès in 1904, this daily newspaper was both his tool for political struggle and his means of spreading socialist ideas to the widest possible audience. He personally wrote many of its editorials.

An emblematic garment of Third Republic politicians, Jaurès's dark frock coat contrasts with his warm and popular personality, a symbol of republican respectability.

A former philosophy agrégé, Jaurès always kept works by Plato, Kant, or Marx close at hand. His socialism was nourished by a deep humanist culture that set his thinking apart.

Jaurès wrote numerous open letters and petitions, notably during the Dreyfus Affair, to mobilize public opinion and call political leaders to account for injustices.