France

Publicity Poster Stamps

Set of three stamps, issued on the 80th anniversary of the birth of Henri Barbusse. They are denominated - 30 Fr., 50 Fr., and 100 Fr. - so they might have also served as fundraisers for the A.R.A.C. (The Republican Veterans Association, which is an association of leftist veterans, created in 1917, and still existing.).
    From Wikipedia:(edited)

    Henri Barbusse
    Henri Barbusse; May 17, 1873 – August 30, 1935) was a French novelist and a member of the French Communist Party. He was a lifelong friend of Albert Einstein.

    The son of a French father and an English mother, Barbusse was born in Asnières-sur-Seine, France in 1873. Although he grew up in a small town, he left for Paris in 1889, at age 16. In 1914, at age 41, he enlisted in the French Army, despite being a pacifist, and served against Germany in World War I. Invalided out of the army three times, Barbusse would serve in the war for 17 months, until the end of 1915, when he was permanently moved into a clerical position due to pulmonary damage, exhaustion, and dysentery.

    In November 1917, Barbusse was the co-founder and first president of the Republican Veterans Association, known as A.R.A.C.

    In January 1918, he left France and moved to Moscow, where he married a Russian woman and joined the Bolshevik Party. His novel, Clarté, is about an office worker who, while serving in the army, begins to realize that the imperialist war is a crime. Vladimir Lenin commented that this novel was censored in France.

    The Russian Revolution had significant influence on Barbusse's life and work. He joined the French Communist Party in 1923 and later traveled back to the Soviet Union. His later works, Manifeste aux Intellectuels (Elevations) (1930) and others, show a more revolutionary standpoint. Of these, the 1921 Le Couteau entre les dents (The Knife Between My Teeth) marks Barbusse's siding with Bolshevism and the October Revolution. Barbusse characterized the birth of Soviet Russia as "the greatest and most beautiful phenomenon in world history."

    In 1927, Barbusse participated in the Congress of Friends of the Soviet Union in Moscow. He led the World Congress Against Imperialist War (Amsterdam, 1932) and headed the World Committee Against War and Fascism, founded in 1933. He also took part in the work of the International Youth Congress (Paris, 1933) and the International Congress of Writers in Defense of Culture. Additionally, in the 1920s and 1930s, he edited the periodicals Monde (1928–1935) and Progrès Civique, which published some of George Orwell's first writings.

    In 1934, Barbusse sent Egon Kisch to Australia to represent the International Movement Against War and Fascism as part of his work for the Comintern. The resulting unsuccessful exclusion of Egon Kisch from Australia by the Conservative Australian Government succeeded in energizing Communism in Australia and resulted in Kisch's staying longer than Barbusse had intended.

    An associate of Romain Rolland's and editor of Clarté, he attempted to define a "proletarian literature", akin to Proletkult and Socialist realism. Barbusse was the author of a 1936 biography of Joseph Stalin, titled Staline: Un monde nouveau vu à travers un homme (Stalin: A New World Seen Through the Man.)

    Although Barbusse was not an Esperantist, he was a supporter of the Espernato movement and the SAT in particular. (Sennacieca Asocio Tutmonda is an independent worldwide cultural Esperanto association of a general left-wing orientation, headquartered in Paris). In 1922 the SAT brochure For la Neŭtralismon! (Down with Neutralism) appeared, written by Eugene Lanti - the founder of SAT - to justify the existence of the Esperanto movement of workers, separated from the neutral movement. On the title page of this booklet is the following quotation from Barbusse: "The bourgeois and worldly Esperantists will be more and more astonished and terrorized by all that can come out of this talisman: an instrument allowing all human beings to understand."

    Barbusse was also Honorary President of the first SAT Congress held in Prague in 1921.

    While writing a second biography of Stalin in Moscow, Barbusse fell ill with pneumonia and died on August 30, 1935. He is buried in Le Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris.
This set of stamps is listed in l'Arc-en-Ciel's "Catalogue descriptif des Timbres Commémoratifs de France et des Colonies" as France - 1953, as a complete set of 3, rated "RR".
They are F/VF, OG, NH.

Approximate Image Size: 42 x 27 mm.

* STOCK IMAGE


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