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Marcel Martinet

1887 – 1944

Poet, novelist and playwright

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About Marcel Martinet

Lived 1887 – 1944 (aged 56). Marcel Martinet was a French writer, playwright, poet and novelist.

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.

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École Normale Supérieure
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Who was Marcel Martinet?

Poet, novelist and playwright (1887–1944)

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Marcel Martinet was born on 22 August 1887 in Dijon.

When did Marcel Martinet die?

Marcel Martinet died on 18 February 1944 in Saumur.

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Marcel Martinet was a writer, playwright, poet and novelist.

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Marcel Martinet was French.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Marcel Martinet

· Wikidata: Q3289218

· DBpedia: Marcel Martinet

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