Robert Brasillach (Robert Brasillach)

Robert Brasillach

Author. Prolific novelist, poet and playwright author of several acclaimed novels and co-author, with Maurice Bardèche, of “L’Histoire Du Cinéma,” the first prominent survey of film. He was also editor of the major fascist and anti-semitic newspaper in Paris. Tried and executed for treason by a firing squad, he was the only writer of any distinction to be executed by France for what he wrote. (bio by: MC)

Born

  • March, 31, 1909

Died

  • February, 02, 1945

Cemetery

  • Cimetière de Charonne
  • France

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