Lucien Romain Rebatet is a French author and journalist. He began his writer career as a music and film critic for the far right newspaper "Action Française", before writing for the right-wing newspaper "Je suis partout", where he expressed his sympathy for National Socialism. During World War II, Lucien Rebatet became a radio reporter for the Vichy Government and a journalist for "Cri du Peuple", and thus clearly collaborated. He wrote in 1942 a pamphlet entitled "Les Décombres" ("The Ruins") and begun writing "Les Deux Etendards" ("The Two Standards"), that he continued at Sigmaringen, where he had fled as well as Louis-Ferdinand Céline or the Vichy authorities. In 1945, Rebatet was arrested in Austria and sent back to France. There, he ha
