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When we think of the Great War and assassination, Franz Ferdinand comes to mind. But aggressive nationalism that drove young men to murder was not confined to the Balkans. In Jean Jaurès we have another victim of the passions of youth. Jaurès was a prominent French socialist and pacifist, murdered by an angry young man before he could organise strikes and other general opposition to the Great War.
He could not have stopped the war (with a 1914 PoD), since Germany planned to invade (which would inflame patriotic French sentiment), and the declaration of war was only three days away when he was killed. Yet I suspect he could have been a great force working for peace during the war, helping to unite the pro-peace forces in France and Germany. But how do you chaps feel he could have influenced WWI, the Stockholm Conference, and post-war France?