[2] One of the founders, Jacques Sadoul, had been a French infantry soldier in Russia during World War I but had joined the Red Army and became an organized communist.
[3] Prominent members of the French Communist Group included Jacques Sadoul, Pierre Pascal, Suzanne Girault and Henri Guilbeaux.
Although the organization was small, it was able to play an important role in educational work that enabled mutinies amongst French interventionist troops in Russia in 1919.
[1] The French Communist Group published the weekly newspaper La Troisième Internationale between October 1918 and March 1919.
[2] One of the members of the group, the school teacher Jeanne Labourbe, was executed by French troops in Odessa in 1919.