Pierre Quillard ( born Paris , 14 July 1864 - died Neuilly-sur-Seine , 4 February 1912 ) was a French symbolist poet , playwright , translator ( from Greek ) , and journalist . An anarchist and supporter of Dreyfus , he later became one of the first people to defend the Armenians persecuted under the Ottoman Empire . In his youth , Quillard was a pupil of the Lycée Fontanes , where he counted Éphraïm Mickaël , Stuart Merrill , René Ghil , André Fontainas , Rodolphe Darzens , and Georges Vanor among his classmates
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Armenian Genocide
Pierre Quillard