 In later years he earned a living as a writer in Saint Cyr-sur-Morin, outside Paris.In the late 1920s he became an influential critic of film and photography, writing important essays about the work of Eugène Atget, Germaine Krull and others.In addition to "Quai des Brumes", his many novels included "A Bord de l'Etoile Matutine", translated into English by Malcolm Cowley as "On Board the Morning Star", and "La Bandera" (1931).