Alain Laubreaux was born on 9 October 1899 in Nouméa, Nouvelle-Calédonie, France. He was a writer, known for Boulot aviateur (1937). He died on 15 July 1968 in Madrid, Spain.
Journalist and author, he was a member of the collaborationist newspaper Je suis Partout using the pseudonym Daxiat. He was hit by Jean Marais for one of his criticisms of Jean Cocteau's works. This is the source of the scene in Le Dernier Métro. He is deemed responsible for having sent Desnos to a concentration camp. He fled to Spain in August 1944.