The ashes of Jean Jaurés, famed French Socialist, who was assassinated on the eve of the outbreak of the War in 1914, were deposited in their final resting place — the Pantheon, national shrine of Republican France.
All Paris, except the Royalists and Communists, turned out to witness the passing of the cortège. In the Latin Quarter, men, women and children broke through the police lines to throw red eglantines and red carnations on to the catafalque, pushed by brother miners of Jaurés' home Department.
In the Pantheon,...
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