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Marcel Martinet
Marcel Martinet (Dijon, 22 August 1887 – Saumur, 18 February 1944) was a French pacifist socialist revolutionary militant and a prolétarian writer. Life Martinet, a Communist and pacifist, opposed the First World War from its outset: his antiwar poems ''Les temps maudits'' were banned in France during the war, but circulated secretly: helped by Marguerite Rosmer, he sent copies on thin paper to soldiers at the front.Ian Birchall, 'Introduction', Victor Serge, ''Revolution In Danger'', Haymarket Books, 2011, p. 4 ''La Maison à l'Abri'', a novel about the First World War, was runner-up for the Prix Goncourt in 1919.Michael RosenEurope's charnel house(review of George Paizis, ''Marcel Martinet: poet of the revolution''), ''The Guardian'', 2 February 2008 Martinet's poem ''La Nuit'', completed in 1919, was published in 1922 with a preface by Leon Trotsky,Stephen Eric Bronner and Douglas Kellner, ''Passion and rebellion: the expressionist heritage'', Taylor & Francis, 1983, p. 119 w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dijon
Dijon (, , ) (dated) * it, Digione * la, Diviō or * lmo, Digion is the prefecture of the Côte-d'Or department and of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in northeastern France. the commune had a population of 156,920. The earliest archaeological finds within the city limits of Dijon date to the Neolithic period. Dijon later became a Roman settlement named ''Divio'', located on the road between Lyon and Paris. The province was home to the Dukes of Burgundy from the early 11th until the late 15th centuries, and Dijon became a place of tremendous wealth and power, one of the great European centres of art, learning, and science. The city has retained varied architectural styles from many of the main periods of the past millennium, including Capetian, Gothic, and Renaissance. Many still-inhabited town-houses in the city's central district date from the 18th century and earlier. Dijon's architecture is distinguished by, among other things, '' toits bourguignons'' (Burgu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
