Henri Barbusse and Realist War Prose

Henri Barbusse

A French novelist, poet, journalist, and political activist. World-renowned for his First World War novel "Le Feu" (English title: "Under Fire"). Although a pacifist before the war, he volunteered for the French Army in 1914 and served on the Western Front for about 17 months. Based on his battlefield experiences, he deepened his critique of militarism, and after the war evolved his political stance toward pacifism, anti-war movements, socialism, and communism. He joined the French Communist Party in 1923 and also participated in anti-fascist movements. "Le Feu" won the Prix Goncourt in 1916 and became a masterpiece of First World War literature.

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Year	Henri Barbusse
1873	Birth of Henri Barbusse (Period: May 17, 1873, Location: Asnières-sur-Seine (present-day Hauts-de-Seine, France))
1895	Publication of Poetry Collection "Pleureuses" (Age: 21 years old, Period: 1895, Location: Paris, France)
1898	Marriage to Hélyonne Mendès (Age: 24 years old, Period: April 18, 1898, Location: Croissy-sur-Seine, France) Marriage (Henri Barbusse, Hélyonne Mendès, Age: 24 years old, Period: April 18, 1898, Location: Croissy-sur-Seine, France)
1908	Publication of "L’Enfer (Hell)" (Age: 34 years old, Period: 1908, Location: Paris, France)
1914	World War I (Age: 40 years old, Period: 1914–1918, Location: Europe, Middle East, and Africa) Trench Warfare on the Western Front (Age: 40 years old, Period: Late 1914 – 1915, Location: Western Front, France) Voluntary Enlistment in the First World War (Age: 41 years old, Period: August 1914, Location: France)
1915	Writing Battlefield Journals during the First World War (Age: 41 years old, Period: 1915–1916, Location: Western Front and Rear Medical Facilities, France) Removal from the Front Line due to Lung Damage and Dysentery (Age: 42 years old, Period: November 1915, Location: French Front Line and Rear Medical Facilities)
1916	Participation in the Battle of Verdun (Age: 42 years old, Period: 1916, Location: Verdun, France) Publication of "Under Fire" and Awarded the Prix Goncourt (Henri Barbusse, Age: 42 years old, Period: 1916, Location: France) Publication of "Under Fire: The Story of a Squad" (Age: 43 years old, Period: December 1916, Location: France) Awarded the Prix Goncourt (Henri Barbusse, Age: 43 years old, Period: December 1916, Location: Paris, France)
1917	Founding of the Republican Association of Ex-Servicemen (Age: 43 years old, Period: 1917, Location: France)
1919	Publication of "Clarté (Light)" (Age: 45 years old, Period: 1919, Location: France) Development of the "Clarté" Movement (Age: 45 years old, Period: 1919 – 1920s, Location: France and Europe)
1920	Writing Political Works including "Lenin and Leninism" (Age: 46 years old, Period: 1920s, Location: France and Soviet Union)
1923	Joining the French Communist Party (Age: 49 years old, Period: 1923, Location: France)
1928	Founding of "Monde" (Age: 54 years old, Period: 1928, Location: Paris, France)
1930	Participation in Anti-Fascist Movements (Age: 56 years old, Period: 1930s, Location: Various Places across France and Europe)
1935	Writing Stalin's Biography "Staline" (Age: 61 years old, Period: 1935, Location: Moscow, Soviet Union) Death of Henri Barbusse (Age: 62 years old, Period: August 30, 1935) Death in Moscow (Age: 62 years old, Period: August 30, 1935, Location: Moscow, Soviet Union)

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French Politics	Raymond Poincaré Georges Clemenceau René Viviani Alexandre Millerand Aristide Briand Joseph Caillaux
British Politics	Herbert Henry Asquith David Lloyd George Horatio Herbert Kitchener Andrew Bonar Law Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill Andrew Bonar Law
Poet and Writer	Wilfred Owen Siegfried Sassoon Rupert Brooke Isaac Rosenberg Robert Graves Henri Barbusse Romain Rolland
Science and Medicine	Marie Curie Ernest Rutherford Paul Langevin Charles de Lorme Alexis Carrel

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