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French politician, Marcel CACHIN is a socialist and communist parliamentarian from 1914 to 1958, director of the newspaper LHumanité from 1918 to his death. It is with these last two titles that it has a certain influence and long, not being pacifist himself, on the French pacifist landscape. Notably because the PCF has positions that are often decided, but also variable, on military, military and war policy, and that it has a hold after the Second World War on this landscape, through the Peace Movement. He plays an important role in the Breton Movement. Member of Parliament from 1914 to 1932, he rallied to national politics during the First World War and therefore supported the war. He was sent on a mission to Italy, then a first time in Russia in 1917. During the summer of 1920, he made a trip to Soviet Russia with Ludovic-Oscar FROSSARD, one and the other come back conquered by the new regime. He is one of the architects of the SFIO split at the Congress of Tours, during which the majority approves the October revolution and the support of the Bolsheviks. He is one of the founders of the French Communist Party, which adheres to the Third International. In January 1923, he denounced the occupation of the Ruhr ordered by the government of Raymond POINCARÉ in order to compel Germany to accelerate the payments of the indemnities imposed by the Treaty of Versailles. It must be remembered that, from the very beginning of the knowledge of the decisions of this treaty, Humanity criticizes them, not so much with regard to the heaviness of the sanctions against Germany as to the fact that it as*umes the complete hegemony of Anglo-Saxon capitalism ( ...), eliminating the most formidable competition (...) (and) thanks to their possession of all raw materials, thanks to their colossal empire colonial, English-speaking citizens dominate at this time the entire universe (June 1919). the Treaty of Versailles is actually in its