Jean Raffin-Dugens
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Jean Raffin-Dugens
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| Born |
3 December 1861 Saint-Pierre-d'Allevard, Isère, France |
| Died | 26 March 1946 (aged 84) Grenoble, Isère, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Known for | Pacifism |
Jean Pierre Raffin-Dugens (3 December 1861 – 26 March 1946) was a French politician. He was a socialist, internationalist and pacifist. During World War I (1914–1918) he was one of the few national deputies to remain true to the principle that the workers of the world should not support wars between their countries arranged by political and military leaders. After attending an international pacifist conference in Switzerland in 1916 he was subject to a storm of criticism. He was not reelected after the war.
Jean Pierre Raffin-Dugens was born on 3 December 1861 in Saint-Pierre-d'Allevard, Isère. He became a teacher. He believed in freethought, and in 1905 attended an international congress of freethought, "the Trocadéro", at Voiron in Isère. There he first met Pierre Brizon.
Raffin-Dugens entered politics in 1910, running for the 2nd district of Grenoble in the department of Isère in the national elections. He was elected in the second round of voting. He was very active in defending the principles on which he was elected. He was involved in issues concerning education, and was strongly and actively opposed to military spending. Raffin-Dugens was reelected in 1914 in the second round of voting.
Raffin-Dugens stayed true to his pacifist principles after the outbreak of World War I (July 1914 – November 1918). He said he regretted the socialists having voted for war funding, and demanded resumption of contacts between socialists of all countries. In 1915 he criticized Jules Guesde's position of "war to the end".
An international socialist conference at Kienthal in Switzerland was arranged for the end of April 1916, a follow-up to the 1915 Zimmerwald Conference. The Confédération générale du travail (CGT, General Confederation of Labor) leaders Alphonse Merrheim, Albert Bourderon and Marie Mayoux were expected to represent France, but were refused the passports they needed to travel. Three delegates from the SFIO led by Alexandre Blanc were able to attend as deputies with parliamentary immunity. Raffin-Dugins and Pierre Brizon accompanied Blanc. All three were teachers by profession.
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