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Henri Barbusse

1873 - 1935

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Henri Barbusse (French: [ɑ̃ʁi baʁbys]; 17 May 1873 – 30 August 1935) was a French novelist, short story writer, journalist, poet and political activist. He began his literary career in the 1890s as a Symbolist poet and continued as a neo-Naturalist novelist; in 1916, he published Under Fire, a novel about World War I based on his experience which is described as one of the earliest works of the Lost Generation movement or as the work which started it; the novel had a major impact on the later writers of the movement, namely on Ernest Hemingway and Erich Maria Remarque. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Henri Barbusse is the 443rd most popular writer (up from 500th in 2019), the 531st most popular biography from France (up from 585th in 2019) and the 76th most popular French Writer.

Henri Barbusse is most famous for his book, Under Fire, which is a first-hand account of the First World War.

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Among writers, Henri Barbusse ranks 443 out of 7,302. Before him are Sándor Márai, Gregory of Tours, Georges Bataille, Fausto Cercignani, Andrzej Sapkowski, and Qu Yuan. After him are Vuk Karadžić, Jim Corbett, Raymond Chandler, Athenaeus, Henry James, and Philip Larkin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Henri Barbusse ranks 13. Before him are Leon Czolgosz, Konstantin von Neurath, Colette, Jules Rimet, Hans von Euler-Chelpin, and Alexis Carrel. After him are Otto Loewi, Luigi Lucheni, Alfred Jarry, Karl Schwarzschild, Spyridon Louis, and Antonie Pannekoek. Among people deceased in 1935, Henri Barbusse ranks 17. Before him are Alban Berg, Auguste Escoffier, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Astrid of Sweden, Charles Richet, and André Citroën. After him are Carlos Gardel, Hugo de Vries, Paul Dukas, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Lij Iyasu of Ethiopia, and Jane Addams.

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In France

Among people born in France, Henri Barbusse ranks 531 out of 6,770. Before him are Lothair of France (941), Pauline Bonaparte (1780), Charles Richet (1850), Francis, Duke of Guise (1519), André Citroën (1878), and Pepin the Hunchback (770). After him are Jean-Louis Tauran (1943), Marc Bloch (1886), Lucien Bonaparte (1775), William II of England (1056), Emma of Normandy (985), and Hippolyte Fizeau (1819).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Henri Barbusse ranks 76. Before him are Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636), Arthur de Gobineau (1816), Jacques Prévert (1900), William of Rubruck (1220), Gregory of Tours (538), and Georges Bataille (1897). After him are Louis Aragon (1897), Charles, Duke of Orléans (1394), Françoise Sagan (1935), André Maurois (1885), René Guénon (1886), and Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848).

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