Pierre Quillard was a French

France

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 Symbolist poet, playwright, translator (from Greek

Greek language

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), and journalist. An anarchist and supporter of Dreyfuss, he later became one of the first people to defend the Armenians persecuted

Armenian Genocide

The Armenian Genocide—also known as the Armenian Holocaust, the Armenian Massacres and, by Armenians, as the Great Crime—refers to the deliberate and systematic destruction of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire during and just after World War I...

 under the Ottoman Empire

Ottoman Empire

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. In his youth, Quillard was a pupil of the Lycée Fontanes

Lycée Condorcet

The Lycée Condorcet is a school founded in 1803 in Paris, France, located at 8, rue du Havre, in the city's IXe arrondissement. Since its inception, various political eras have seen it given a number of different names, but its identity today honors the memory of the Marquis de Condorcet. The...

, where he counted Éphraïm Mickaël, Stuart Merrill

Stuart Merrill

Stuart Fitzrandolph Merrill was an American poet, born in Hempstead, New York, who wrote mostly in the French language. He belonged to the Symbolist school. His principal books of poetry were Les Gammes . Les Fastes , and Petits Poèmes d'Automne .-Life:Merrill was the product of a conservative,...

, René Ghil, André Fontainas

André Fontainas

André Fontainas was a Belgian Symbolist poet and critic. He was born in Brussels. He spent much of his life in France. He taught at Lycee Fontaines.He was a member of the Académie Mallarmé.-Poetry:* Niuts d'Epiphanie 1894...

, Rodolphe Darzens, and Georges Vanor among his classmates.