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WBenjamin Fondane or Benjamin Fundoianu was a Romanian and French poet, critic and existentialist philosopher, also noted for his work in film and theater. Known from his Romanian youth as a Symbolist poet and columnist, he alternated Neoromantic and Expressionist themes with echoes from Tudor Arghezi, and dedicated several poetic cycles to the rural life of his native Moldavia. Fondane, who was of Jewish Romanian extraction and a nephew of Jewish intellectuals Elias and Moses Schwartzfeld, participated in both minority secular Jewish culture and mainstream Romanian culture. During and after World War I, he was active as a cultural critic, avant-garde promoter and, with his brother-in-law Armand Pascal, manager of the theatrical troupe Insula.
WCharles Étienne Louis Ganderax was a French journalist and drama critic. He was literary editor of the Revue de Paris with Henri Meilhac, a member of the Académie française.
WPierre Jules Théophile Gautier was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic.
WAbel Hermant was a French novelist, playwright, essayist and writer, and member of the Académie française.
WAndré Lafargue was a French journalist and theatre critic.
WLucien Muhlfeld was a French novelist and dramatic critic.