He is also the author of Histoire de la poésie française: La poésie du XVIIe siècle Among his notable works is the autobiographical series of novels "Roman d'Olivier" about growing up in the streets of a poor quarter in Paris during the 1930s.

A small selection of Sabatier's poems have been published in English translations by the American poet X.J.

Kennedy and others in the anthology Modern European Poetry (edited by Willis Barnstone et al., published by Bantam Books, NY, 1966).

but the bitter violence that strikes at the reader of these poems has its roots in an earlier joy that persists like a dream.

"[3] Sabatier's poetry is deeply colored by memory and division: "He held the image that he loved so tight/his body itself cast two shadows.