Jean Jaurès (1859-1914) was a French journalist and politician.
Benjamin of the Chamber of Deputies in 1885, then re-elected as an “independent socialist” in 1893, he supported the great Carmaux miners’ strike, denounced “scurrilous laws” and the collusion of economic interests with the press, defended Captain Dreyfus and supported the 1905 law separating Church and State.
He helped found the French Section of the Workers’ International (SFIO), the French Socialist Party, and L’Humanité, the daily he first directed. He was assassinated in 1914 by a nationalist while trying to prevent the outbreak of the First World War.
His remains have been laid to rest in the Pantheon in Paris.
Jaurès was 35 when this portrait was done.