See also: Unpleasant

Unpleasant Raoul (1885 - 1936), member of the League of the young friends of Alsace-Lorraine , grouping of nationalist students, assassinates by two balls in the head Jean Jaurès with the Coffee of the Crescent, 146 rue Montmartre with Paris (2nd), on Friday, July 31 1914 with 21:40.

This assassination takes place three days before the beginning of the First World War, and the release of the hostilities precipitates some, in particular by facilitating the rallying of the left, including much of Socialists who hesitated, to the “Sacred union”.

He is imprisoned on standby his lawsuit during all the First World War and, after fifty six months of preventive detention, he is discharged at the time of his lawsuit, on March 29th 1919, sworn having estimated that he had rendered service to his fatherland: “If the adversary of the war, Jaurès, had been essential, France could not have gained the war. ” The widow of Jaurès must even pay the expenses of the lawsuit. Raoul Villain exiles himself then with Santa Eulalia on the island Ibiza in the Balearic Islands, where the buildings call it “insane port”. Shortly after the beginning of the War of Spain, the republican carry out it for espionage with the profit of the pro-Franco army on September 14th 1936.