Raoul Villain
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Raoul Villain was a French nationalist. He is primarily remembered for his assassination of French socialist leader Jean Jaurès on 31 July 1914, in Paris. Villain was acquitted by a jury of peers in 1
Raoul Villain
The still existing Café du Croissant which was located next to Jaurès's newspaper L'Humanité (photo by Rémi Jouan)
The House of Raoul Villain in Bay of Cala de San Vicent as it stands in 2013
Anatole France
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Anatole France was a French poet, journalist, and novelist. Several of his books were best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member
Raoul Villain
…War I began. Incarcerated for the duration of the war, Villain was brought to trial in 1919. He was acquitted by a jury of peers on 29 March 1919, and Anatole France wrote in L'Humanité: "Workers! ... A monstrous verdict proclaims that the assassination of Jaurès is not a crime...". Jaurès's wife, as plaintiff, was…
Anatole France young years
France's home, 5 villa Saïd, 1894–1924
France c. 1921
Anatole France on a postage stamp of Armenia, 2015