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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