Henri Martin (born 1927 in Lunery, Cher) is a political activist of the French Communist Party and former sailor famous for the political-military scandal called the Henri Martin Affair, in which the government of the French Fourth Republic meted out a five-year prison sentence to him for distributing pamphlets in opposition to the First Indochina War.
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“The taste for freedom, the fashion and cult of happiness of the majority, that the nineteenth century is infatuated with was only a heresy in his eyes that would pass like others.”
—Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)
“As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.”
—Nicholas Pileggi, U.S. screenwriter, and Martin Scorsese. Henry Hill (Ray Liotta)