1. Jean Longuet was the grandson of German-born philosopher Karl Marx.
10 Facts About Jean Longuet
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Jean Longuet was their second son, and the eldest who survived to adulthood.
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On his return to France, Jean Longuet lived for a time with his father's family in Caen to continue his studies.
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Jean Longuet worked for the newspaper L'Humanite and was a founder and editor of the newspaper Le Populaire.
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Jean Longuet criticised the League Against Imperialism, which was created in 1927 and supported by the Comintern.
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Jean Longuet supported Zionist positions at the Socialist International meeting in Brussels in 1930 and at a speech to a Zionist group in Paris in 1935.
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Jean Longuet represented Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, a political prisoner, who while being taken from Bombay to England to stand trial on the charges of sedition and abetment of murder, escaped from the ship, which was docked at Marseilles, and swam ashore until he was caught by a French gendarme.
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However, Jean Longuet persisted and personally handed over the copies of the memorandum to the members of the court.
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Jean Longuet died at the Aix-les-Bains Clinic after a car accident in September 1938, aged 61.
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Jean Longuet was buried at the Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, in the same grave as his aunt and uncle, Laura and Paul Lafargue.