Raoul Villain - Definition

Raoul Villain (1885-1936) assassinated the French socialist leader Jean Jaurès on the 31 August 1914 at the Paris café "Le café du croissant" in the Montmartre area around 21:40h, the day before mobilization for the First World War began. Incarcerated for the duration of the war, he was brought to trial in 1919. Controversially acquitted on the 29th of March 1919, he fled to Ibiza in the Balearic Islands, where he was assassinated in 1936 by Republicans during the Spanish Civil War.