Henri Barbusse

Henri Barbusse was born at Asnières on 17 May 1873 into a Protestant family from the Cévennes. A poet in the 1890s, he then turned to the novel and worked in journalism. Despite fragile lungs and pacifist ideas, he enlisted in 1914, at forty-one, and fought in the 231st infantry regiment from December 1914 to 1916; awarded the Croix de guerre in 1915, he was discharged on 1 June 1917. Co-founder that same year of the Association républicaine des anciens combattants, he joined the Communist Party in 1923 and died in Moscow on 30 August 1935.

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• NovelUnder FireLe FeuHenri Barbusse · 1916LiteraturePublic domain