Jean Longuet

Jean-Laurent-Frederick Longuet 5 October 1876 – 11 September 1938 was the French socialist politician & journalist. He was Karl Marx's grandson.

Death in addition to family

Jean Longuet married Anita Desvaux 1875–1960 in 1900. They had two sons: a lawyer and journalist Robert-Jean Longuet 1901–1987 and the sculptor Karl-Jean Longuet 1904–1981. Jean's younger brother Edgar Longuet, a physician, was also an active socialist.

Longuet died at the Aix-les-Bains Clinic after a car accident in September 1938, aged 61. He was buried at the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, in the same grave as his aunt and uncle, Laura and Paul Lafargue. Longuet's wife and two sons were later buried in the same grave.