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My parents, and especially my mother, encouraged by the director of the local school which I was attending, wanted in spite of everything to send me to a National School of Arts and Crafts so that I could later become an engineer.
Leon Jouhaux
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Leon Jouhaux
Age: 74 †
Born: 1879
Born: July 1
Died: 1954
Died: April 28
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The 15th
Léon Henri Jouhaux
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