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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.
Anthropometric record card. © Préfecture de Police. 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.
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.
Raoul Villain, Jaurès' murderer. The murderer was Raoul Villain, a 29-year-old from Rémois, an archaeology student at the École du Louvre, and above all a member of the Ligue des jeunes amis de l'Alsace-Lorraine, a nationalist, pro-war student group close to Action Française.
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. The other didn’t. Jaurès died almost...
/ France. FRANCE. 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...
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).
