“A socialist Dawn”. Jean Jaurès’ first trip to Belgium (1894)
Georges, Martin
“A socialist Dawn”. Jean Jaurès’ first trip to Belgium (1894) - 2023.
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Our article looks back at Jean Jaurès’ first trip to Belgium (March 1894), at the invitation of the Brussels Federation of the Belgian Worker’s Party (Parti ouvrier belge/Belgische Werkliedenpartij – POB/BWP) and the Socialist Students’ Circle (Cercle des Etudiants socialistes). It was part of an exceptional temporality, a “socialist dawn”, between the first electoral success of the French socialists (August-September 1893) and that of the Belgian socialists (October 1894). Before his arrival, we follow the birth of Jaurès’ international reputation in the Belgian press and his contradictory political identification. Afterwards, we discover the ‘censorship’ by Le Peuple, the official POB-BWP daily, of Jaurès’ article describing his visit to Belgium and the quarrel over electoral alliances.
“A socialist Dawn”. Jean Jaurès’ first trip to Belgium (1894) - 2023.
48
Our article looks back at Jean Jaurès’ first trip to Belgium (March 1894), at the invitation of the Brussels Federation of the Belgian Worker’s Party (Parti ouvrier belge/Belgische Werkliedenpartij – POB/BWP) and the Socialist Students’ Circle (Cercle des Etudiants socialistes). It was part of an exceptional temporality, a “socialist dawn”, between the first electoral success of the French socialists (August-September 1893) and that of the Belgian socialists (October 1894). Before his arrival, we follow the birth of Jaurès’ international reputation in the Belgian press and his contradictory political identification. Afterwards, we discover the ‘censorship’ by Le Peuple, the official POB-BWP daily, of Jaurès’ article describing his visit to Belgium and the quarrel over electoral alliances.
Réseaux sociaux