Robert Francis (writer)


Robert Francis, pen name for Jean Godmé, was a French writer, winner of the 1934 edition of the Prix Femina.

Biography

Robert Francis was Jean-Pierre Maxence's brother, the pseudonym of Pierre Godmé. After studying science, he occupied a post of civil engineer in the North of France in the 1930s. At the same time, he devoted himself to letters and founded with his brother in 1928 a literary magazine, Les Cahiers, which disappeared in 1931. Robert Francis belonged to the middle of the jeune droite catholique des années 1930. A friend of Thierry Maulnier, he wrote with him and his brother a work which had a certain success on its release: Demain la France which was a charge against the regime of the moment, written on the morrow of the 6 February 1934 crisis.

Work

; Histoire d'une famille sous la Troisième République :
; Other publications :