Wounded in the temple at the front in 1916, this poet finally died two years later, on 9 November 1918, struck down by an illness unrelated to his war wound, two days before the Armistice. Who is he?
The answer
Guillaume Apollinaire, wounded in the temple by shrapnel in 1916, died of Spanish influenza on 9 November 1918, two days before the Armistice, while Paris was already celebrating the end of the war in the streets.
This question belongs to the “Writers and Poets” series of the Père-Lachaise quiz: ten questions, a story behind every right answer.