Raoul Villain
French nationalist; assassinator of French socialist leader Jean Jaurès in 1914 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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 of the Spanish Civil War.