BAZIN, RENÉ (1853–), French novelist and man of letters (see 3.561), produced two further novels, Davidée Birot (1912) and Gingolph abandonné (1914), as well as a volume of travel sketches, Nord-Sud Amérique, etc. (1913) in the pre-war period. After 1914 he published two volumes of war sketches, Pages religieuses (1915) and Aujourd'hui et demain (1916), as well as two novels, La Closerie de Champdolent (1917) and Les nouveaux Oberlé (1919).