Jacques Sadoul
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Jacques Numa Sadoul, commonly known as Captain Sadoul, was a French lawyer, communist politician, and writer, one of the founders of the Communist International.
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Photograph of Sadoul during his time in Vienne, ca. 1912
Sadoul (second from right), flanked by Pierre Pascal and Marcel Body (1922 photograph)
The Comintern's 1st Congress. In the car, Grigory Zinoviev and Anatoly Lunacharsky, with foreign delegates - Hugo Eberlein, Otto Grimlund, Fritz Platten, and Karl Steinhardt. Sadoul is the left of the car, in profile, addressing Zinoviev
Yvonne Sadoul as Secretary of the Tours Congress (December 1920). President Jules Blanc is pictured standing
Henri Niessel taking the stand as a hostile witness during Sadoul's 1925 retrial. Sadoul is sitting in the defendants' boxAwards 1
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About this person
Jacques Numa Sadoul, commonly known as Captain Sadoul, was a French lawyer, communist politician, and writer, one of the founders of the Communist International. He began his career in the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) in Vienne, and, by the time of World War I, was serving under Albert Thomas, the Minister of Armaments. A French Army Captain, he was Thomas' envoy to the Russian Republic, keeping contact with the socialist circles and steering them toward the Entente Powers. After the October Revolution, he maintained close contacts with the Bolsheviks, pledging them his support against the Central Powers during the crisis of 1917-1918. He was unable to prevent Bolshevist Russia from signing the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, which took her out of the war, but, having established close contacts with Leon Trotsky and other communist leaders, became a communist himself.
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