Summary: Hugh Schofield reimagines the French capital of the Ballets Russes and Pablo Picasso - but which politically suffered continuing angst over its neighbour across the Rhine: Germany. The assassination in Paris of the leading French pacifist and socialist, Jean Jaurès, in late July 1914 convulsed the city. It crystallised the divergent views in France about the country's relations with her European neighbours reflected by Jaurès on the one hand and Charles Péguy - also soon to die - on the other. Hugh Schofield tells the story of why the two men's thinking was so powerful and why it still resonates across the politics and culture of France a hundred years later.
