Paul Vaillant-Couturier (8 January 1892 in Paris

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 - 10 October 1937) was a French

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 author

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, journalist

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 and politician

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. He studied history

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 and law

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 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

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 and was a lieutenant of what was then named the artillerie d'assaut (tank

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s) when the war was over.

He was editor in chief of the communist newspaper L'Humanité

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from April 1926 to September 1929, then again from May 1934 (officially from July 1935) to his sudden death in 1937.

Works

• La Visite du berger, Éditions du temps - Paris. 1913.
• La guerre des soldats : le champ d'honneur conseils de guerre aux armées l'hopital, Ernest Flammarion, 1919.
• Lettres à mes amis (1918-1919). Ernest Flammarion. 1920.
• Jean sans pain, histoire pour tous les enfants, Paris, Clarté, 1921.
• Trains rouges, poèmes, Paris, Clarté, 1922.
• Un mois dans Moscou la rouge, Paris, Éditions des reportages populaires, 1926.
• Le Bal des aveugles, Ernest Flammarion, 1927.
• Le Père Juillet, Léon Moussinac et Paul Vaillant-Couturier, Paris, Au sans-pareil, 1927.
• Trois conscrits ; Le monstre ; Asie, Paris : Bureau d'éditions, 1929.
• Les bâtisseurs de la vie nouvelle, neuf mois de voyage dans l'U.R.S.S. du plan quinquennal, Paris : Bureau d'éditions, 1932.
• Le malheur d'être jeune, Paris : Éditions nouvelles, 1935.
• Enfance : Souvenirs d'enfance et de jeunesse, Paris : Éd. sociales internationales, 1938.
• Nous ferons se lever le jour, Paris : Ed. d'Hier et d'Aujourd'hui, 1947.
• Histoire d'âne pauvre et de cochon gras, Paris : Éditions la Farandole, 1956.
• Vers les lendemains qui chantent, Paris, Éditions sociales, 1962.