Félix-Henri "Henry" Bataille (4 April 1872, in Nîmes – 2 March 1922, in Rueil-Malmaison[1]) was a French dramatist and poet.

His works were popular between 1900 and the start of World War I. Bataille's parents died when he was young.

[2] He attended the École des Beaux-Arts and Académie Julian[3] to study painting, but started writing when he was 14.

Bataille's early works explored the effects of passion on human motivation and how stifling the social conventions of the times could be.

While he did not use his theories in most of his own works, he influenced later playwrights such as Jean-Jacques Bernard and the "school of silence".