Eugène Dabit

Eugene Dabit (21 September 1898 in Mers-les-Bains – 21 August 1936 in Sevastopol) was a French socialist writer.

He maintained an important correspondence with Roger Martin du Gard.

Dabit was a friend and literary and political associate of André Gide; he died of an illness while accompanying Gide on a trip to the Soviet Union in 1936.

[1] Dabit was also an artist, having studied at the École des Beaux-Arts with Louis-François Biloul.

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