Guillaume Apollinaire
Two years after being wounded in World War I, Apollinaire died in the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918; he was 38.
Les Onze Mille Verges
Les Onze Mille Verges ou les Amours d'un hospodar is a pornographic novel by French author Guillaume Apollinaire, published in 1907 over his initials "G.A.". The title contains a play on the Catholic veneration of the "Eleven thousand Virgins" (French: "les onze mille vierges"), the martyred companions of Saint Ursula, replacing the word "vierge" (virgin) with "verge" (rod) due to a slip of the tongue by the protagonist and as an omen of his fate. The use of the word "verge" may also be considered as a pun for it is used as a vulgarism for the male member.