Raoul Villain (1885 – 1936) was a French nationalist primarily remembered for his assassination of the French socialist leader Jean Jaurès on July 31, 1914 in Paris.
Read more about Raoul Villain: Early Life and Background, Attack On Jaurès and Result, After Being Acquitted
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“When you’re dealing with monkeys, you’ve got to expect some wrenches.”
—Alvah Bessie, Ranald MacDougall, and Lester Cole. Raoul Walsh. Captain Nelson, Objective Burma, giving a subaltern a mission (1945)
“Hamlet. There’s never a villain dwelling in all Denmark
But he’s an arrant knave.
Horatio. There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave
to tell us this.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)