“La Croix Rouge et la Croix Blanche, ou la guerre chez les neutres, a war after the war”

The way in which Great War and its mood are represented in Dumur’s war tetralogy conforms to resolutely partisan views, for instance, distorted and even completely false information, reverse chronology, and outrage in the assessments of some of his Romandy colleagues. That this was seized upon by the nationalist leaders of Action française is hardly surprising, given the circumstances: the novelist’s position actually aligns closely with a stance also advocated by Léon Daudet.