Sadoul Jacques

Sadoul Jacques - a former member of the French Socialist Party (now a member of the Communist Party of France) - September 1917. was seconded to the French mission in Russia for information about the Russian Revolution. By September 1918. broke with the French mission and began to work actively as a Communist. In March 1919. Sadoul participated as the representative of France, at the first Congress of the Comintern. In the same 1919. He was sentenced by a French court in absentia to death for treason, for propaganda among the French sailors, for desertion and intercourse with the enemy. At the end of 1924. Sadoul returned to France, was arrested and handed over to military authorities. March 31, 1925, Mr.. military court in Orleans Sadoul acquitted on charges of desertion. For other items the coroner found the allegation was unfounded Sadoul, and his case was dismissed.