Marcel Martinet (Dijon, 22 August 1887 â€" Saumur, 18 February 1944)
was a French pacifist socialist revolutionary militant and a
prolétarian writer.Martinet, a Communist and pacifist, opposed the
First World War from its outset: his antiwar poems Les temps maudits
were banned in France during the war, but circulated secretly: helped
by Marguerite Rosmer, he sent copies on thin paper to soldiers at the
front.[1] La Maison à l'Abri, a novel about the First World War, was
runner-up for the Prix Goncourt in 1919.[2] Martinet's poem La
Nuit,completed in 1919, was published in 1922 with a preface by Leon
Trotsky,[3] whom Martinet had befriended when Trotsky was in Paris.[1]
Martinet's series Les Cahiers du Travail [Labour Notebooks] published
pamphlets by Victor Serge.[1]His son was the surgeon Jean-Daniel
Martinet.
was a French pacifist socialist revolutionary militant and a
prolétarian writer.Martinet, a Communist and pacifist, opposed the
First World War from its outset: his antiwar poems Les temps maudits
were banned in France during the war, but circulated secretly: helped
by Marguerite Rosmer, he sent copies on thin paper to soldiers at the
front.[1] La Maison à l'Abri, a novel about the First World War, was
runner-up for the Prix Goncourt in 1919.[2] Martinet's poem La
Nuit,completed in 1919, was published in 1922 with a preface by Leon
Trotsky,[3] whom Martinet had befriended when Trotsky was in Paris.[1]
Martinet's series Les Cahiers du Travail [Labour Notebooks] published
pamphlets by Victor Serge.[1]His son was the surgeon Jean-Daniel
Martinet.
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