The Assassination of Jean Jaurès (Lithograph by Camille Ravot, 1915)

Raoul Villain (1885-1936) was a French nationalist primarily remembered for his assassination of the French socialist leader Jean Jaurès on July 31, 1914 in Montmartre, Paris. Year 1885 ( MDCCCLXXXV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Year 1936 ( MCMXXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. AssassiNation is the sixth album by Krisiun, released in 2006 on Century Media. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Socialism refers to a broad set of economic theories of social organization advocating state or collective ownership and administration of the Means of production and distribution The word leadership can refer to Those entities that perform one or more acts of leading Jean Léon Jaurès (full name Auguste Marie Joseph Jean Léon Jaurès; 3 September 1859 31 July 1914) was a French Events 30 BC - Battle of Alexandria: Mark Antony achieves a minor victory over Octavian 's forces but most of his army subsequently Year 1914 ( MCMXIV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Montmartre is a hill (the butte Montmartre) which is 130 metres high giving its name to the surrounding district in the north of Paris in the 18th Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city

Villain was a member of the Ligue des jeunes amis de l'Alsace-Lorraine (League of Young Friends of Alsace-Lorraine), a nationalist student group. Alsace-Lorraine (Reichsland Elsaß-Lothringen generally Elsass - Lothringen) was a territorial entity created by the German Empire in 1871 After France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, the territories of Alsace and Lorraine were handed over to the Germans. The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, often referred to in France as the 1870 War ( 19 July, 1870 — 10 May, 1871 This was the cause of much anger and resentment in France and many felt that a new war with Germany was in order to recover both territories and pride.

Therefore many like Villain opposed to the pacifist policies of Jaurès. At about 21:40 on the evening of Friday July 31, 1914 Villain fired two fatal bullets through a window into Jaurès' head while his victim was at a meeting in "Le café du croissant" at the corner of Rue Montmartre and Rue du Croissant. Events 30 BC - Battle of Alexandria: Mark Antony achieves a minor victory over Octavian 's forces but most of his army subsequently Year 1914 ( MCMXIV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year the next day, posters went up all over France announcing the general mobilization for what would be the First World War. World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All

Incarcerated for the duration of the war, Villain was brought to trial in 1919. Year 1919 ( MCMXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Controversially acquitted on March 29, 1919, he fled to Ibiza in the Balearic Islands, where he was assassinated on March 19, 1936 (just before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War) by Republicans or by Jean Coryn^[1]. Events 1461 - Wars of the Roses: Battle of Towton - Edward of York defeats Queen Margaret to become King Year 1919 ( MCMXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Ibiza (Eivissa is an island located in the Mediterranean Sea about 80 km off the coast of Spain The Balearic Islands ( Catalan and official Illes Balears; Spanish: Islas Baleares) are an Archipelago in the western Mediterranean Events 1279 - A Mongolian victory in the Battle of Yamen ends the Song Dynasty in China. Year 1936 ( MCMXXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Spanish Civil War was a major conflict in Spain that started after an attempted Coup d'état committed by parts of the army against the government of The Second Spanish Republic was the system of government in Spain between April 14 1931, when King Alfonso XIII left the country

Notes

1. ^ Isabelle Vilain mentions that Coryn was the assassin "according to one theory", which she does not identify.

External links

• Isabelle Vilain's brief note on three Vilains
• Jean Jaurès School project. Ecole Jean Jaurès students created web pages about Jaurès that include a portrait photograph of Villain, which may not yet be in the public domain.

Sources

• A. Combes, "Casimir Combes (la guerre de 1914)"
• Isabelle Vilain, "Les Vilain célèbres", (3 January 2002)