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Dandieu initially studied law and became a solicitor¹s clerk before taking up a post at the Bibliothèque Nationale in 1925. There he met Bataille, with whom he had many discussions: deeply Catholic, interested in philosophy, psychopathology, epistemology and sociology, Dandieu contributed to many reviews: Documents, but also Europe, Mouvements, Esprit, La Revue Mondiale, La Revue d¹Allemagne. In 1930, with Robert Aron, he founded the movement Ordre Nouveau, which denounced the vulgar materialism at work in liberal societies. The two men published a book-length manifesto entitled Le Cancer américain; a second followed, La Révolution nécessaire (1933) to which Bataille contributed anonymously. Dandieu also published a collection of poems and an essay on Proust. He died prematurely, of complications following a minor operation.