Paul Vaillant-Couturier

Paul Vaillant-Couturier (8 January 1892 in Paris - 10 October 1937) was a French author, journalist and politician. He studied history and law but very early, in 1912, he began writing. At first poems, which were published in 1913 under the title La Visite du berger.

Paul Vaillant-Couturier began World War I, in 1914, as an infantry non-commissioned officer and was a lieutenant of what was then named the artillerie d'assaut (tanks) when the war was over.

He was editor in chief of the communist newspaper L'Humanité from April 1926 to September 1929, then again from May 1934 (officially from July 1935) to his sudden death in 1937.

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