Are Jules Massenet and Dmitri Shostakovich both from France?
Jules Massenet Jules Émile Frédéric Massenet (] ; 12 May 184213 August 1912) was a French composer of the Romantic era best known for his operas, of which he wrote more than thirty. The two most frequently staged are "Manon" (1884) and "Werther" (1892). He also composed oratorios, ballets, orchestral works, incidental music, piano pieces, songs and other music.
Boris Souvarine Boris Souvarine, also known as Varine (born Boris Konstantinovich Lifschitz, Russian: Бори́с Константи́нович Ли́фшиц ; 1895 in Kiev – 1 November 1984 in Paris), was a French Marxist, communist activist, essayist, and journalist.