Pierre Quillard

Poet and playwright

Pierre Quillard (born Paris, 14 July 1864 - died Neuilly-sur-Seine, 4 February 1912) was a French symbolist poet, playwright, translator (from Greek), and journalist.

An anarchist and supporter of Dreyfus, he later became one of the first people to defend the Armenians persecuted under the Ottoman Empire.

In his youth, Quillard was a pupil of the Lycée Fontanes, where he counted , Stuart Merrill, René Ghil, André Fontainas, , and among his classmates.