Henri Barbusse
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Henri Barbusse 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 novel
Barbusse c. 1926
Grave of Henri Barbusse at the Père Lachaise Cemetery
Augusta Holmès
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Augusta Mary Anne Holmès, also known by the pseudonym Hermann Zenta, was a French and Irish composer. Holmès wrote the texts to almost all of her vocal music herself, including songs, oratorios, the l
Henri Barbusse
…sometimes identified as "neo-Symbolist". On 18 April 1898, Barbusse married Helyonne Holmès, the daughter of the poet Catulle Mendès and the composer Augusta Holmès, in Croissy-sur-Seine. In 1908, Barbusse wrote his first novel Hell (L'Enfer), in which he described the life of a young Parisian who lives in a boarding…
Augusta Holmès
A portrait of Holmès' daughters, Huguette, Claudine, and Helyonne, by Auguste Renoir, 1888, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Maurice Renaud & Lucienne Bréval in Augusta Holmès' opera, La Montagne noire.