Jean-Richard Bloch

After the crisis of February 6, 1934, he joined the Vigilance Committee of Antifascist Intellectuals (CVIA) and the Association of Revolutionary Writers and Artists (AEAR).

In August 1934 he actively participated in the International Congress of Writers for the Defense of Culture in 1935 and after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, he rejoined the PCF and with Louis Aragon, in the founding of the communist daily Ce soir March 1937.

[4] In 1937, he was responsible for organising Naissance d'une cité, a "popular spectacle" performed on 19 October as part of the Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne.

[5] After the outbreak of World War II, the PCF was banned and the newspaper L'Humanité was closed, and a trial was organized against communist deputies.

As German troops approached, Bloch left Paris and reached Poitiers on foot, but in the fall he returned to the capital, where he participated in the underground press.

In Paris, Bloch again headed the editorial office of the Ce soir newspaper, became one of the founders of the Franco-USSR society, and began preparations for the publication of his new books.

His other daughter Claude, was the wife of Arturo Serrano Plaja, Spanish poet and military officer of the Republican forces who was sent to exile.