Paul Vaillant-Couturier

Paul Vaillant-Couturier

Paul Vaillant-Couturier (pseudonym of Paul Charles Couturier; 8 January 1892 – 10 October 1937) was a French author, journalist and politician. He was born and died in Paris.

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.

Works

Paul Vaillant-Couturier by the sculptor Victor Nicolas (plaster model, 1950).

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