Ettingshause Maurice (1906-1945), from a wealthy Jewish family Alsatian and was a seminarian in his youth. He went to the United States, and on his return to France was associated with avant-garde literary circles. Friend of Cocteau, Maritain, Jacob and Gide, became famous adventurer and bon vivant. His eccentric and inclined to, verging on crime snobbery provocative ideas, led him to sympathize with the Nazi occupation. He died in strange circumstances possibly shot, although other sources point to a bombing in Hamburg. His books are posthumous; include: Le Sabbat (1946), La chasse à courre (1948) and Tableau des moeurs de ce temps (1953).