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Apr 24, 1891 Paris, Île de France, France Died on 01 Oct 1920 (aged 29)
French politician, journalist and writer
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About Raymond Lefebvre
- Raymond-Louis Lefebvre (Vire, 1891-Barents Sea, 1920) was a French writer and political activist.
- He attended the 2nd World Congress of the Comintern in 1920, but disappeared in the Barents Sea whilst returning. Lefebvre served as a soldier during the First World War and in 1917 described his experiences in Le sacrifice d'Abraham (The Sacrifice of Abraham).
- He had been wounded and was revolted by the whole experience.
- This work placed him alongside Henri Barbusse, Georges Duhamel, Marcel Martinet – amongst others – as being one of the writers who developed a revolutionary perspective during the war.
- He was involved in setting up a radical veterans association, the Association Républicaine des Anciens Combattants.After attending the 2nd Congress of the Cominiern, he was appointed to the Provisional International Bureau of the Kultintern, an organisation set up to promote proletarian culture.
