Henri Barbé

Attending the Third International, he naturally opted for the French Communist Party (PCF), at the split of the Congress of Tours.

In 1931, he was questioned in the course of a meeting of the BP (Bureau Politique), attended by Dmitry Manuilsky, Secretary of the Third International.

Returning to France, Barbé was eventually expelled from the Communist Party in 1934 for having "ultra-left" positions.

Condemned to forced labour in 1944 after the liberation of France, he was released at the end of 1949, and participated in the anti-communist magazine Est & Ouest which sought to promote "reasoned and scientific anticommunism".

Until his death in 1966, he regularly collaborated in the monthly Catholic review Itinéraires founded by Jean Madiran in 1956.