Luc Durtain

André Robert Gustave Nepveu (March 10, 1881, in Paris – January 29, 1959), known under his pseudonym Luc Durtain, was a French poet, novelist, journalist, playwright and a physician by profession.

His books on America, such as The 40th Floor and Frank and Marjorie, contrast the achievements of technology with the intellectual impoverishment of contemporary bourgeois society.

[3] He continued to travel around the world exploring Africa and Indochina, where he became an associate of the Vietnamese nationalist leader Phan Bội Châu.

He urged Jules Romain for the drafting of the manifesto against the bombardment of Adoua by Fascist Italy and the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany.

During the Second World War, he contributed literary articles to the socialist newspaper of Jean Luchaire, Les Nouveaux Temps which switched to collaboration with the Vichy regime after 1942.