Frédéric-Louis Sauser (1887 – 1961), better known as Blaise Cendrars, was a Swiss-born editor, controversialist, adventurer, poet, film maker and author. He was a writer of considerable influence in the European modernist movement. During WWI, he joined the French Foreign Legion and was sent to the front line in the Somme. In September 1915, during during the attacks in Champagne , Cendrars lost his right arm. Among his Radium Age sf writings is "Kodak (Documentaire)" (1924), a kind of prose-poem collaged from the text of Gustave Le Rouge's proto-sf thriller "Le Mystérieux Docteur Cornelius" (1912).