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 ==