Émile Danoën

During the Second World War, he moved to Marseilles with his first wife Georgette, with whom he had two sons, Michael and Peter.

Danoën moved to Paris where he became literary critic of Louis Aragon's journal Ce Soir.

He wrote columns and stories for various publications such as Action, L’Aurore, Bref, Les Cahiers du peuple, Europe, Existences, La Gazette des lettres, Les Lettres françaises, Mystère Magazine, La Nef and others.

That same year he won the Prix du roman populiste for his novel Une maison soufflée aux vents, dedicated to Léna.

While writing and diligently studying at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, (especially documents concerning the anarchist Jules Durand, to whom he devoted an unpublished novel), he temporarily worked as a college supervisor, a night watchman in a warehouse, a sailing, tennis or ping-pong instructor and many other jobs.