Provided by Wikipedia Frédéric-Louis Sauser (1 September 1887 – 21 January 1961), better known as Blaise Cendrars, was a Swiss-born novelist and poet who became a naturalized French citizen in 1916. He was a writer of considerable influence in the European modernist movement.
![<small>Cendrars posing in the uniform of the [[Légion étrangère]] in 1916, a few months after the amputation of his right arm</small>](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/Cendrars_1916.jpg)