And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family.
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Birth: | 5th October, 1887 |
Death: | 20th February, 1976 |
Nationality: | French |
Profession: | Judge, Professor |
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René Samuel Cassin was a French jurist, law professor and judge. The son of a French-Jewish merchant, he served as a soldier in World War I, and later went on to form the Union Fédérale, a leftist, pacifist Veterans organisation. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1968
for his work in drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948.
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