Jean Jaurès (The Holy Deliverance)

Auguste Marie Joseph Jean Léon Jaurès, commonly referred to as Jean Jaurès (3 September 1859 – 31 July 1914),  was a French Socialist leader. Initially a radical republican, he was later a socialist, becoming the leader, in 1902, of the French Socialist Party, which opposed Jules Guesde's revolutionary Socialist Party of France. The two parties merged in 1905 in the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO).

An antimilitarist, Jaurès escapes an assassination attempt and becomes the figure of the refusal to the Union sacrée at the outbreak of the World War I. Supporter of the October Revolution, he will refuse to join the Communist International to preserve the unity of the French Socialists but will be the craftsman of the Workers 'and Peasants' Bloc with the PC-SFIC and will take the power following the elections of 1928. Leader of the first government openly republican and socialist since 1873, during more than 1 years. His government will implement deep social, structural and constitutional reforms but outdated and tired by the tensions between socialists, communists and radicals within his government and the violent attacks of the conservative opposition he resigns, succeeded by the republican-radical Edouard Herriot. Jean Jaurès ended his life in 1935 after being for more than 42 years deputies as one of the most famous and popular figure of republican, socialist and French left thinking.