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On 31 July 1914, Jaurès was assassinated. At 9 pm, he went to dine at the Café du Croissant on Rue Montmartre. Forty minutes later, Raoul Villain, a 29-year-old French nationalist, walked up to the restaurant window and fired two shots into Jaurès' back.[13] He died five minutes later at 9:45 pm. Jaurès had been due to attend an international conference on 9 August, in an attempt to dissuade the belligerent parties from going ahead with the war.[14] Villain also intended to murder Henriette Caillaux with his two engraved pistols.[15] Tried after World War I and acquitted, he was later killed by the Republicans in 1936 during the Spanish Civil War.