Charles Plisnier

Charles Plisnier was born in Ghlin, near Mons, on 13 December 1896. A student at the Free University of Brussels, he turned to communism in 1919 and joined the Belgian Communist Party as soon as it was founded, in 1921, then was admitted to the Brussels bar in 1922. From 1925 he led the Belgian section of the International Red Aid, and in 1928 he was expelled from the party for having sided with Trotsky's views. From then on he devoted himself to writing, was elected to the Royal Academy of French Language and Literature in December 1937 and died in Brussels on 17 July 1952.

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• Short storiesMemoirs of a Secret RevolutionaryFaux passeportsCharles Plisnier · 1937Literature