Jean Jaures

Jean Jaures was an antiwar French Socialist leader.

He boarded the Orient Express in Compartment I

On the verge of war, Jaures was seen as the last hope to prevent it by calling upon the workers of Europe to oppose it. On July 24, when Austria announced the ultimatum to Serbia, Jaures canceled his trip to Vienna, calling for an emergency mass antiwar meeting in Brussels on July 29. He was shot by a young French patriot while in Paris, a day before Germany and France mobilized for war.