Café du croissant

Café du Croissant with the plaque (on the photo below left)

1923 League for Human Rights : plaque commemorating Jean Jaurès

The Café du Croissant , since 2011 La taverne du croissant , is a historic Parisian café on the corner of Rue Montmartre 146 and Rue du Croissant.

history

The café became known through an attack . On July 31, 1914 , the day before Germany and France were generally mobilized for war , the nationalist Raoul Villain murdered the socialist politician Jean Jaurès , who was sitting in the café, with shots through the open window from the sidewalk .

In August 2011 the café was renovated and renamed the tavern ( La taverne du croissant - Bistrot - Brasserie - Paris , see website below).

literature

Leon Trotsky : My life . Attempt an autobiography. Translated from the Russian by Alexandra Ramm . 543 pages. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1990 (Licensor: S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main). ISBN 3-320-01574-5

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↑ In 1915 Trotsky lived in exile in Sèvres . On the occasion, the ardent Jean Jaurès admirer went to the café where the murder took place the previous year. Fourteen years later, in Chapter 19 - Paris and Zimmerwald - Trotsky wrote of his memoirs: “Jaurès was no more. I went to the Café du Croissant , where Jaurès was murdered. I wanted to find his tracks. Politically, I was far from Jaurès. But it was impossible not to feel the pull of this huge personality. Jaurès' spiritual world, which consisted of national traditions, ... of love for the humiliated and of poetic imagination, bore just as sharply aristocratic features as Bebel's mental face was plebeian. And yet they both towered above the heirs they had left behind. I had heard Jaurès speak at popular assemblies in Paris, at international congresses and in commissions ... "

Web links

Commons : Café du Croissant - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Website La taverne du croissant
Jean Jaurès honor on the 100th anniversary of his death. Photo: François Hollande in the Café du Croissant

48.869166666667 2.3432777777778Coordinates: 48 ° 52 '9 " N , 2 ° 20' 35.8" E

[A1-1] In 1915 Trotsky lived in exile in Sèvres . On the occasion, the ardent Jean Jaurès admirer went to the café where the murder took place the previous year. Fourteen years later, in Chapter 19 - Paris and Zimmerwald - Trotsky wrote of his memoirs: “Jaurès was no more. I went to the Café du Croissant , where Jaurès was murdered. I wanted to find his tracks. Politically, I was far from Jaurès. But it was impossible not to feel the pull of this huge personality. Jaurès' spiritual world, which consisted of national traditions, ... of love for the humiliated and of poetic imagination, bore just as sharply aristocratic features as Bebel's mental face was plebeian. And yet they both towered above the heirs they had left behind. I had heard Jaurès speak at popular assemblies in Paris, at international congresses and in commissions ... "