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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

Last week M. Barbusse returned from a trip through "Europe's Little Hell: the Balkans" and many readers of Le Quotidien threw that newspaper into the fire rather than endure his searing expose.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway

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