Raymond Lefebvre, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Raymond Lefebvre

French politician, journalist and writer

Date of Birth: 24-Apr-1891

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 01-Oct-1920

Profession: writer, politician, journalist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

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.