Robert Francis (writer)

Robert Francis, pen name for Jean Godmé, (1909–1946) was a French writer, winner of the 1934 edition of the Prix Femina.
Biography.
Robert Francis was Jean-Pierre Maxence's brother, the pseudonym of Pierre Godmé. After studying science, he occupied a post of civil engineer in the North of France in the 1930s. At the same time, he devoted himself to letters and founded with his brother in 1928 a literary magazine, "Les Cahiers", which disappeared in 1931. Robert Francis belonged to the middle of the "jeune droite catholique des années 1930" ("Young Catholic Right of the 1930s"). A friend of Thierry Maulnier, he wrote with him and his brother a work which had a certain success on its release: "Demain la France" ("Tomorrow France") which was a charge against the regime of the moment, written on the morrow of the 6 February 1934 crisis.