The deputy LFI Éric Coquerel likes to deliver this prognosis:
"In fifty years, we will talk about
Jean-Luc Mélenchon
as we talk today about Jean Jaurès"
, bets this fellow traveler of the candidate.
It is in any case one of the dreams of the Insoumis: to brand his name with a hot iron in history, in the same way as his icon.
At the time of the war in Ukraine, he again tries to draw inspiration from it, wanting to borrow his costume as a defender of the peace.
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"Jean Jaurès had perfectly sensed for his time what was not understood by everyone, namely what butchery was going to be the First World War"
, he greeted him on Saturday in the Vaise district of Lyon.
It was here that the socialist had delivered his last speech
“for peace”
on July 25, 1914, five days before his assassination in Paris.
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