Armand Robin was born in 1912 in Central Brittany (France), into a family of modest farmers, Armand Robin was a poet, essayist and translator; he considered himself an "expert in chatter." He invented his own office "listener of foreign radios" and worked on it while periodically drafting his Bulletin d'Ecoutes. He was a translator of at least 20 languages and a listener of about 41. He did everything in his power to appear on all the black lists circulating in his time, and evidently he succeeded. He collaborated with various publications (Europe, Comoedia, Combat, Le libertaire, 84, Preuves, La Revue de Paris ...), and published Le Temps qu'il fait, Poésie Non Traduite, Ma Vie Sans Moi and Les Poèmes indesirables, plus The false word, already mythical book, which is considered his most dazzling work. He died in Paris in 1961.