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the first thing he does,
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as the cameras follow him around the Panthéon,
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he goes and to pay homage to Jean Jaurès.
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So, what--his importance is he creates a unified Socialist Party
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out of these various factions,
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and he gives it too an impetus, and a popularity,
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and a wide range that would carry it basically
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after his death, on the thirty-first of July, 1914,
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carry it into the 1920s, and 1930s, and beyond.
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Despite later claims, he was a bourgeois by birth.
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His family had included merchants and lawyers,
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two admirals and a bishop.