Marcel Martinet
Marcel Martinet (Dijon, 22 August 1887 – Saumur, 18 February 1944) was a French pacifist socialist revolutionary militant and a prolétarian writer. Life
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. La Maison à l'Abri, a novel about the First World War, was runner-up for the Prix Goncourt in 1919. Martinet's poem La Nuit, completed in 1919, was published in 1922 with a preface by Leon Trotsky, whom Martinet had befriended when Trotsky was in Paris. Martinet's series Les Cahiers du Travail [Labour Notebooks] published pamphlets by Victor Serge. His son was the surgeon Jean-Daniel Martinet. Works 
 Les temps maudits; poèmes, 1914-1918, 1918
 La Maison à l'Abri
 Culture prolétarienne, 1935
 Correspondance croiseé : 1932-1944, Bassac: Plein Chant, 1987. References

Further reading 
 George Paizis, Marcel Martinet: poet of the revolution, London: Francis Boutle, 2007

External links 
 Nicole Racine, Marcel Martinet (1887-1944)

Writers from Dijon
1887 births
1944 deaths
20th-century French novelists
20th-century French poets
20th-century French dramatists and playwrights
French pacifists
French socialists
Proletarian literature
French male poets