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Raoul Villain (September 19, 1885 – September 17, 1936) was a French nationalist. He is primarily remembered for his assassination of the French socialist leader Jean Jaurès on July 31, 1914, in Paris. Villain was acquitted by a jury of peers in 1919 and later fled to the Balearic island of Ibiza, where he was killed during the first stages ...
Raoul Villain trial. Raoul Villain was incarcerated awaiting trial throughout World War I. After fifty-six months of pre-trial detention, when the war was over, his trial was organized before the Seine Cour d'assises. Villain was lucky enough not to be tried until 1919, at his request, in a climate of ardent patriotism. At the hearings from ...
Just after 9:30 p.m., Raoul Villain, a twenty-nine year-old right-wing French nationalist, fired two shots through the café’s open window. One shot missed. One shot missed. The other didn’t .
Raoul Villain, né à Reims le 19 septembre 1885 et mort le 14 septembre 1936 à Ibiza ( Baléares ), est un nationaliste français, assassin du dirigeant socialiste Jean Jaurès, le 31 juillet 1914, à la veille du déclenchement de la Première Guerre mondiale. Bien que sa culpabilité ne fasse aucun doute, lui-même ayant avoué son acte, il ...
France remembers murdered socialist hero Jean Jaurès. On a Friday evening on July 31, 1914, a 29-year-old French nationalist by the name of Raoul Villain arrived at a north Paris café, pulled a ...
Raoul Villain was born in Reims on 19 September 1885 and died in Ibiza on 17 September 1936. He assassinated Jean Jaurès on 31 July 1914, on the eve of the start of World War I. He was acquitted at his trial in 1919. Nationalist student. Raoul Villain was the son of Louis Marie Gustave Villain, head clerk of the civil court in Reims, and Marie ...
On July 31, 1914, socialist leader and intellectual Jean Jaurès was gunned down in a Parisian cafe by a young French nationalist named Raoul Villain (a villainous act, indeed).
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