Barbusse

American

[bar-bys] / barˈbüs /

noun

Henri 1873?–1935, French journalist and author.

Barbusse British

/ barbys /

noun

Henri (ɑ̃ri). 1873–1935, French novelist and poet. His novels include L'Enfer (1908) and Le Feu (1916), reflecting the horror of World War I

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It belongs to that tense-looking but really very loose type of writing, which has been popularized by many second-raters — Barbusse, Céline and so forth.

From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2021

Elsewhere he has praised Ludwig Renn and Henri Barbusse, but he has never, to my knowledge, mentioned Jones.

From The Guardian • Feb. 4, 2011

But after all it is not possible to redeem war from its baseness, merely to please M. Barbusse.

From Time Magazine Archive

Henri Barbusse, 62, novelist, Pacifist, Communist; of pneumonia; in Moscow, where he attended sessions of the Seventh World Communist Party Congress.

From Time Magazine Archive

“There is ‘Le Feu’ by a Frenchman, Barbusse.

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway

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