The name Laurent Obertone is a pseudonym which the author began to use in 2010 when he wrote for the online magazine Ring.
[2] Obertone received more attention in 2013 when his own book La France Orange mécanique [fr] (transl.
The book is about increasing violence in France, which Obertone links to immigration and calls "the wildening" (French: l'ensauvagement) of the country.
[3] Obertone's writings have made an impact on France's far right,[4][1][5][6] mainstream right,[7][8][9] and a few government ministers in the cabinets of Édouard Philippe and Jean Castex.
[10][11] Obertone has written a trilogy of novels called Guérilla (2016–2022), which is about how civil war breaks out in France, spurred on by social media and mainstream journalists.