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René Cassin

French jurist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, co-author of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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He served as a soldier in the First World War, was seriously wounded, and later became a key drafter of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.[1][2]

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Life and work

Cassin studied political economics, constitutional history, and Roman law at the University of Provence, earning distinctions and a doctorate in juridical science, economics and politics in 1914.[3] During the First World War he led an attack at the Battle of the Meuse in 1916 and was gravely injured by machine gunfire.[4] He was awarded the Croix de Guerre but was mustered out as a war invalid.[4] Refusing the armistice, Cassin joined General Charles de Gaulle in London in June 1940 to help draft the statutes of Free France.[5]

Cassin started teaching law as a professor at Lille in 1920, then moved to a professorship in Paris in 1929, where his teaching career lasted until 1960.[6] From 1943 until 1976, Cassin held the presidency of the Alliance Israelite Universelle.[7][8]

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That source also reports that Cassin participated in creating UNESCO, whose constitutive act was ratified on 4 November 1946.[7]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "René Cassin" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Adams, "Catholics, Jews and Protestants in De Gaulle's free France", McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 6 November 2006 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "René Cassin" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Glendon 2001, p. 62 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "René Cassin" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Union Fédérale 2016 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "René Cassin" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Union Fédérale 2016; Haberman 1972, p. 386 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "René Cassin" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Crémieux-Brilhac 1996, p. ; Glendon 2001, p. 62 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "René Cassin" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Cassin, René Samuel", www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  7. René Cassin, l'inconnu du Panthéon. facts only, no text reused. lhistoire.fr
  8. Wikipedia, "René Cassin" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Winter 2012, p. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org

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1. In what year did René Cassin die?

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From the source: “Cassin died in Paris in 1976 and was initially interred at the Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris.”

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From the source: “Cassin was born in Bayonne on 5 October 1887, to a Sephardi Jewish family.”

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