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RAPHAEL MAURICE 
One of two things

Paris, Editions du Scorpion, 1949, in 8°, 229 pp., paperback, under illustrated cover. First edition.

Angel Bastiani is the main pen name of Victor Maurice Élie Jean Le Page, born on 2 December 1918 has Brest and died on 4 november 1977 in the 5e district of Paris, French writer, author of numerous thrillers.
He also wrote under the pseudonyms of Ralph Bertis, Zep Cassini, Luigi Da Costa, Angel Gabrielli, Maurice Raphaël, Victor Saint-Victor, Vic Vorlier.

“Son of a Breton naval officer, but born in Toulon”, he remains discreet about his origins and claimed to have taken the maiden name of his mother, of Corsican origin.4. One thing is certain: after the World War II, he began writing, first under the pen name Maurice Raphaël. Its first publisher is Raymond Guerin who proposes to have it published at Scorpio directed by Jean d’Halluin. His first writings did not meet with the expected success, although praised by André Breton, to whom he also sends his works. Under the name of Maurice Raphaël, his prose is in line with Celine. There we find the same slang and scabrous formulas, often oriented towards self-loathing. The whole is judged with great pessimism.
Lepage is, with Albert Simonin, one of the masters ofslang of  » Medium « . As Simonin, he had a troubled past: to this day, no one can really know what exactly the years of his youth were like. According to Alfred Eibel, among others, he would have been during the World War II active member of the collaboration, “responsible for Jewish issues for the departments of Eure and Eure-et-Loir”, engaged in the militia of the rue Lauriston. Then he would have only narrowly escapedpurification. He is in prison Fresnes prison center and to that of Fontevraud where he is a librarian and there is the idea of ​​using his very special knowledge of mobsters to write novels.
He then touches on many areas: erotic novels, plays, guides… But he is best known for his detective novels, published in 1950s And 1960 in Black Series and in the collection A mystery, “mostly devoted to underworld Corsica Or marseille ».
The Bread of the Jules went up in 1959 by Jean Le Poulain At Capucines Theater.
In 1960, his novel appeared in the Série noire, The Bread of the Jules, East adapted for cinema by Jacques Severac.
Tireless pedestrian of Paris, he dies rue d’Alésia in 1977.
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“Son of a Breton naval officer, but born in Toulon”, he remains discreet about his origins and claimed to have taken the maiden name of his mother, of Corsican origin.4. One thing is certain: after the World War II, he began writing, first under the pen name Maurice Raphaël. Its first publisher is Raymond Guerin who proposes to have it published at Scorpio directed by Jean d’Halluin. His first writings did not meet with the expected success, although praised by André Breton, to whom he also sends his works. Under the name of Maurice Raphaël, his prose is in line with Celine. There we find the same slang and scabrous formulas, often oriented towards self-loathing. The whole is judged with great pessimism. Lepage is, with Albert Simonin, one of the masters ofslang of  » Medium « . As Simonin,