couldn't do it." Book sales were used to create the ARAC (AssociationRépublicainedesAnciensCombattants).: xi The novel had a major impact on the later writers
involved in setting up a radical veterans' association, the AssociationRépublicainedesAnciensCombattants. After attending the 2nd Congress of the Comintern
Vaillant-Couturier participated in the founding of the Associationrépublicainedesancienscombattants ('Republican Association of Former Frontline Soldiers'), a radical