Word: jaures
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vain did the latter try to pacify the irate graybeards and others less bewhiskered; finally he was forced to put on his hat, thus suspending the session. A motion to transfer to le Panthéon, last resting place of France's great men, the bones of Jean Jaurés, Socialist, who was assassinated on the eve of the outbreak of the War, was passed by the Chamber by 346 to 110 votes, and by the Senate with only five opposing votes. The bill will become law after it has been signed by President Doumergue. The Government will...
...ceremonies occur, are celebrated and mourned without the aid of the Church. Bolshevism has given a peculiar tinge to the first ceremony. Among Russian names are given: Vladimir Ilich (after Lenin whose real name is V. I. Ulianov-Lenin) ; Klara Zetkin and Rosa Luxemburg (after two leading women Bolsheviki) ; Jaurès (after a French Communist, assassinated in 1914) ; Rem, meaning "revolution, electrification and meer (peace)"; Nep, meaning New Economic Policy; and some others...
...moments later the man found himself on a little platform. "Let everything go to hell," he cried, "Let everything go to hell, but my mother and my lawyer. Vive Jaurès! Vive l'Anarchie! Vive Germaine Berthon! Vive les Russes...