Marie Paul Louis Jaurès was a French

France

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 admiral and deputy. He was the brother of Jean Jaurès

Jean Jaurès

Jean Léon Jaurès was a French Socialist leader. Initially an Opportunist Republican, he evolved into one of the first social democrats, becoming the leader, in 1902, of the French Socialist Party, which opposed Jules Guesde's revolutionary Socialist Party of France. Both parties merged in 1905 in...

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Biography

Jaurès was born at Castres

Castres

Castres is a commune, and arrondissement capital in the Tarn department and Midi-Pyrénées region in southern France. It lies in the former French province of Languedoc....

, Tarn

Tarn

Tarn is a department of 5,758 km2 in the Midi-Pyrénées region in the southwest of France, named after the Tarn River. It was formed in 1790 of the three dioceses of Albi, Castres and Lavaur, belonging to the province of Languedoc. In 1906, the population was 330,533...

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After his studies at the École Navale

École Navale

The École Navale is the French Naval Academy in charge of the education of the officers of the French Navy.The academy was founded in 1830 by the order of King Louis-Philippe...

, Louis Jaurès took part in the trials of the Gymnote

Gymnote

The Gymnote was one of the world's first all-electric submarines.Launched on 24 September 1888, she was developed in France following early experiments by Dupuy de Lôme, and, after his death, by Gustave Zédé and Arthur Krebs, who completed the project...

. In 1903, Jaurès was capitaine de frégate, in command of the Galilée; he was sent to rescue five sailors abandoned in Africa by their employer, Jacques Lebaudy, who had turned insane.

Jaurès later took command of the Gloire

French armoured cruiser Gloire

The Gloire was an armoured cruiser of the French Navy.In 1914, the Gloire was used as a school ship. In August, she was transferred to the English Channel light squadron, until April 1915...

. The ship suffered an accidental explosion on 20 September 1911 which caused limited damage.

Promoted to capitaine de vaisseau, Jaurès took command of the first-rank battleship Liberté

French battleship Liberté (1905)

The Liberté was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the French Navy, and the lead ship of her class. Commanded by capitaine de vaisseau Louis Jaurès, She sailed to the United States after her commissioning...

on 24 November 1910. On 25 September 1911, as Jaurès was on shore leave, the Liberté was destroyed by an accidental explosion. He was put on trial and slandered by the right-wing press, but was acquitted by the court martial.

During the First World War, Jaurès was préfet maritime

Préfet Maritime

The Préfet Maritime is a servant of the French State who exercises authority over the sea in one particular region . As a civil servant, he reports to the Prime Minister...

 of Cherbourg.

Jaurès reached the rank of vice-admiral, and took up a political career as a Socialist-Republican deputy for Paris

Paris

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. He died in the latter city in 1937.

Honours

• Grand officer of the Legion of Honour
• Distinguished Service Medal
  Distinguished Service Medal (United States)
  The Distinguished Service Medal is the highest non-valorous military and civilian decoration of the United States military which is issued for exceptionally meritorious service to the government of the United States in either a senior government service position or as a senior officer of the United...