Education
École Normale Supérieure.
novelist playwright writer poet
École Normale Supérieure.
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. Martinet"s poem Louisiana 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 published pamphlets by Victor Serge.