For Bastille Day, a defense of the French Revolution by Jean Jaurès, a socialist and antimilitarist: http://go.shr.lc/1O3yMiY via @Jacobinmag
Jaurès assassinated 101 years ago for trying to avert what we now call First World War. Murderer got off scot-free; widow had to pay costs.
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Jaurès' murderer was himself killed by Spanish Republicans in the Spanish Civil War. Jaurès was interred in the Pantheon in 1924.
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