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87lexandre Jaume i Rosselló, CompleteWorks of Alexandre Jaume Roselló, Palma:Lleonard Muntaner, 2011. [Volume 1: Alexandre JaumeRoselló (1879-1937), a biography edited by AlexandreFont Jaume, prologue by Jaume Massot Muntaner,399p. + 12 plates. Volume 2: Writings from Prison,edited by Alexandre Font Jaume, prologue by AndreuJaume Enseñat. Volume 3: 1931-1933 Impressions of aconstituent member, edited by Alexandre Font Jaume,prologue by José Bono Martínez and introduction byMaria Ballester Cardell, volumes 4 and 5 are inpreparation].Andrés L. Jaume Universitat de les Illes Balearsandres.jaume@uib.esJOURNAL OF CATALAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY,Issue 5, 2013   |   Print ISSN 2014-1572 / Online ISSN 2014-1564P. 87-89Reception date: 5/07/2011 / Admission date: 12/12/2011http://revistes.iec.cat/index.php/JOCIHAreviewsAlexandre Jaume i Rosselló was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, the November 221879. The son of  Andreu Jaume Nadal and Isabel Rosselló Pastor, Majorcanswho emigrated to Uruguay. His father had studied at the Seminary of  Palma, butleft the clerical career and opened a training centre (1867-1868) in addition toprepping Latin. His wife, also a school teacher, was the sister of Alexandre Roselloi Pastor, minister of  Grace and Justice in the Antonio Maura government.However, Andreu Jaume Nadal emigrated to Uruguay, where his father had beensettled and had an important business together with his brothers. So Alexandrelearned the first letters in Uruguay where he was educated in French. In 1889 theJaume family returned to Palma and young Alexandre studied high school in theBalearic Institute from 1891 to 1895. From 1896 to 1897 he studied Philosophyat the University of  Barcelona, where he was student of  Daurella, but he gaveup, apparently because of  family pressures, and he started studies in law at thesame university. However he did not stay in Barcelona, but he continued hisstudies at the universities of  Valencia and Madrid, where the 12 October 190088obtained a degree in Law with excellent marks. His father seemed to have planneda political career in the liberal party in order for him to succeed his uncle AlexandreRosselló. This included a good education for Alexandre prepared by his father,and after finishing his studies in law he went to Paris (1901-1903) to studyeconomics at the Sorbonne. After that he was appointed, thanks to the efforts ofhis father, Consul of Uruguay in Palma and was dedicated to the practise of  lawand politics, with a clear preference for the latter. Jaume was member of theLiberal Party from 1904, and in 1909 he managed to be appointed city councillorin Palma, but apparently he was disappointed by local politics. The followingyear, he left the Liberal Party and went in to business with his brothers. Thedisillusionment with politics and the practice of  law brought him ideologicallycloser to socialism and in May 1919, on the initiative of  Llorenç Bisbal, he joinedthe socialist association of  Palma when it had only 28 members. The surprisewas great for family and society, a bourgeois businessman with a good economicposition affiliated to a party of  workers considered rather radical at the time, butAlexandre Jaume stayed his decision and collaborated actively in the diffusionorganization of  the party, The Balearic Worker, with many theoretical articles onsocialism from a perspective clearly influenced by Jean Jaurés, i.e. pacifist andnon-revolutionary socialism. In 1931 took his vath as deputy in the ConstituentAssembly. He was the first socialist deputy of  the Balearic Islands, but until 1936did not hold any office in the party and even had problems with a section of  it.On 23 April 1936, he was elected delegate by the President. When the coupd´état of  General Francisco Franco broke out, he was arrested on 19 July 1936 atthe Port de Pollença where he spent the summer. He was imprisoned at theCastell de Bellver and on16 February 1937 the military court sentenced him todeath. He was shot against the walls of  the municipal cemetery of  Palma, on themorning of  24 February 1937, along with Emili Darder, first Republican Mayorof  Palma, Mateo Antonio, Mayor of Inca and Antonio M. Tions, amid a furiousmass of  people shouting and clapping at each shot of  the execution squad.Alexandre Jaume, though he made no philosophical-political system, wasconcerned with spreading and reflecting about socialism in a time when varioustrends existed. During his lifetime, he published two books, Impressions of  a cons-tituent member 1931-1933 (Palma: José Tous, 1933) and the October insurrection.Catalonia, Asturias, Balearic Islands (Felanitx: Felanigense, 1935). As highlightedin the unpublished notes brought to light in 2011, My Torment (p. 127), he authoreda brief  introduction to socialism, The Socialist Script, a general work, but it wasburnt when Jaume was arrested. Finally, while James was in prison, he sneakedout some notes to compose a book entitled My Torment, a work that has remainedunpublished until 2011, and has been published with the letters written from jail.Jaume was also a regular contributor to The Balearic Worker and The Last Hour.They are currently preparing an edition of  these writings within the up comingedition of  his Complete Works, edited by Alexandre Font.Journal of Catalan Intellectual History.  Issue 5. 2013. P. 87-89ANDRÉS L. JAUME89The study and the recovery of  the memory of  Alexandre Jaume was notan easy task after the years of  Franco and on an island where everyone, untilrecently, know everyone. Oral sources, mainly the children of  Alexandre and hisnephew Andreu Jaume Rovira were not always explicit, though the latter retaineda handful of  writings -Archive Jaume Rovira-, and is concerned with thereinstatament of the figure of  his uncle. Also the direct descendants of  AlexandreJaume maintain an excellent documentary archive -Archive Jaume Planas-.However, there were no studies on him until the work by his grandson AlexandreFont Jaume, a High School Latin teacher who holds a doctorate in ClassicalPhilology. Indeed, several studies by Dr. Font reveal a scientific approach thatoutweigh emotional memories of  his grandfather. We can say today that everythingthat could be said about the biographical aspects of  Alexandre Jaume has alreadybeen said, particularly in the biography published in 2011 Alexandre Jaume Rosselló(1879-1937). However, there are stills some tasks left such as the analysis of  hispolitical background and the theoretical model behind it, work that can only beundertaken through a textual analysis, his library was burned for family security reasons.Bibliographic NoteCRUANYES, J. «L’assassinat d’Alexandre Jaume», El Temps, 80, (2-8/09/2003).DD.AA. Documentos Socialistas. Escritos de Indalecio Prieto, de Ramón González Peña,Toribio Echevarria, Amador Fernández, Antonio Llaneza, Alejandro Jaume,Francisco Torquemada, Jóvenes Presos de Asturias y de Madrid, etc. Madrid, 1935.FONT JAUME, A. Alexandre Jaume. Palma: Ajuntament de Palma, 1987.GABRIEL, P. «Alexandre Jaume, primer intel·lectual socialista mallorquí», Randa, 3,(1970): 167-225.JAUME ENSEÑAT, A. El somni d’Alexandre Jaume. Barcelona: Fundació RafaelCampalans, Arxiu Històric, 2003.JAUME MAS, J. “El final de Alejandro Jaume”, Diario de Mallorca, 20 de juliol de 2006.— «75 aniversario de una ignominia», Diario de Mallorca, 16 de febrer de 2012.MOLL MARQUÉS, J. Crònica d’una infàmia. El procés contra Emili Darder, AlexandreJaume, Antoni Mateu i Antoni Maria Ques. Palma: Editorial Moll, 2009.PAYERAS, M. «Alexandre Jaume. Una aproximació al seu pensament polític (1931-1936)», Randa, 22, (1987): 81-113.TRIAS MERCANT, S. Història del pensament a Mallorca, vol. I i II. Palma: EditorialMoll, 1985 i 1995.Translation from Catalan by Josep Monserrat and Glòria FarellJournal of Catalan Intellectual History.  Issue 5. 2012. P. 87-89Alexandre Jaume i Rosselló, Complete Works of Alexandre Jaume i Rosselló

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