Gavin Bowd is Reader in French at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. His publications include: Guillevic, sauvage de la modernité (1992), L'Interminable enterrement. Le communisme et les intellectuels français depuis 1956 (1999), Paul Morand et la Roumanie (2003) and The Last Communard. Adrien Lejeune, the Unexpected Life of a Revolutionary (2016).