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“... Jean​ Jaurès was a deserving child of the French republican meritocracy. An outstanding pupil from the town of Castres, near Toulouse, he came top in the entrance exam for the École Normale Supérieure, where he specialised in philosophy. In 1885, at the age of 25, he was elected as a Republican deputy for his home town ...”

“... been especially distinguished. There are no figures in British Labour history of the stature of Jean Jaurès, Karl Kautsky or Antonio Gramsci, whose theoretical and historical works have been recognised as significant contributions to socialist politics. Furthermore, the debate over revisionism largely, but not completely, bypassed English ...”

“... from the net of theory. Hill’s poem starts in blood, absurdly. ‘Crack of a starting-pistol, Jean Jaurès/dies in a wine-puddle.’ An accident of language, or was Péguy’s call for Jean-Jaurès’s death responsible for his murder? ‘Must men stand by what they write?’ Yes ...”

“... was out of prison. He published the following eloquent statement drafted by the Socialist leader, Jean Jaurès, and Joseph Reinach, the first historian of the Dreyfus Affair: The government of the Republic gives me back my liberty. It is nothing to me without honour. As of today, I shall continue to pursue reparation for the frightful judicial error of ...”

“... one. Similarly, one can understand why enthusiasts of the Revolution like Mathiez, Lefebvre and Jean Jaurès tended to glorify Robespierre: ‘my place is among the Jacobins, alongside Robespierre,’ writes the liberal humanist Jaurès proudly. One can agree with Mignet that the Revolution saw ‘transient excesses ...”

“... sweep of artistic and political friendships, from Rodin and Sarah Bernhardt to Gide and Valéry to Jean Jaurès and Léon Blum. His politics were socialist and Dreyfusard; he also moved in the circle around the Revue blanche. The first three editions of Histoires naturelles were illustrated by Félix Vallotton, Toulouse-Lautrec and Bonnard; Vallotton also ...”

“... was out again at the next election in 1893, but a block of 50 socialists was elected, among them Jean Jaurès, a short, fat philosophy lecturer from Toulouse, whose oratory could silence the Chamber. Jaurès envisaged a far broader role for the socialist party than Lafargue and Guesde had done. Taking a position on ...”

“... in 1925, were named respectively for the Indian revolutionary M.N. Roy and the French socialist Jean Jaurès, assassinated in 1914 for his anti-war views. Some people changed their names so as not to sound too Jewish or ethnic. But the names most frequently abandoned in the 1930s were peasant ones such as Matrena and Kuz’ma (regarded as ...”

“... in the agrégation, one place ahead of his rival and classmate, the future Socialist strongman Jean Jaurès. By the standards of the day, this new Life is impressively unrevealing on its subject’s private life, its authors finding so little to go on archivally that they had no alternative but to fall in with Bergson’s own insistence, in a few ...”

“... not actually dumped, however, until 21 September 1794, the day the body of the martyred radical Jean-Paul Marat entered. In 1797 the relatively conservative regime wanted to bring Mirabeau back, but his body was nowhere to be found. (This was not the only lost body: the hero of Verdun in 1792, General Nicolas-Joseph Beaurepaire, was supposedly sent to the ...”

“... Jean Lacouture’s study of Léon Blum is entertaining and has been very well translated by George Holoch. The book’s frequent references to French names unknown across the Channel could put English readers off: but curiosity may prevail with a British public which finds itself abruptly transported into the unfamiliar territory of French political life under the Third and Fourth Republics ...”

“... countries met to co-ordinate an opposition to the coming world war. The names of real heroes like Jean Jaurès and Karl Liebknecht make the figures of Asquith and Churchill and Lloyd George seem like pygmies. This is precisely the kind of romanticism Schmitt was writing about; indeed the Basel conference may have been one of the specific instances he ...”

“... John Weightman, reviewing Jean-Denis Bredin’s monumental work in the Observer, wrote of the Dreyfus Affair that ‘it was perhaps a good thing for France that the abscess burst when it did, because this brought tensions out into the open and revealed the “undeclared civil war” which would need to be resolved in the 20th century ...”

“... uncritical acceptance. The biographer who has the most directly benefited from this situation is Jean Lacouture. Having written a small and somewhat critical book on de Gaulle some years ago, he has now published two volumes of what is one of the most impressive exercises in biography to have come out of France in recent years. The second volume stops at the ...”

“... also thriving, even if it ‘has undoubtedly lost its way since it ceased to claim the values of Jaurès’. It’s not that people are forgetting, it’s just that some events, ‘far from being eminently forgettable, are so painful that attempts are made to repress them, attempts which, given their power and the interest of some parties in commemorating ...”