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Le Patriote lorrain 07 décembre 1924


 Jaurès' children, news from Paul and Germaine

THE CHILDREN OF JAURES

...Major General Mangin cites in the army order the aspirant Jaurès (Paul-Auguste-Marie), matriculation number 7,514, company of the 10th battalion of hunters, ...Non-commissioned officer of first value. On June 3, 1918, attacked with his section by superior forces in number, charged with the bayonet at the head of his hunters. Fell gloriously for France. Headquarters, September 20, 1918.
The general commanding the 10th Army: (signed) Mangin.
The aspirant Paul Jaurès, volunteered at eighteen years old in the foot cavalry, had voluntarily transferred to the foot hunters.

Some comparisons are too painful, so we will limit ourselves to saying that this pure hero of patriotic devotion was indeed the son of Jean Jaurès, transported Sunday to the Pantheon. Full of affectionate admiration for his father, he did not share his political ideas at all.
Likewise, she was indeed the daughter of the tribune, this Germaine Jaurès, who although subjected to the dangerous influence of an anticlerical governess, the student of the École Normale Supérieure Verdelot, left the sumptuous paternal home to become a nun. "And nune intelligite....


But who is Germaine Jaurès, the nun?


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