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Born February 18, 1896 • France
Died September 28, 1966 (aged 70) • Paris • France
Founder Louis Aragon • Philippe Soupault • “Littérature”
Notable Works “L’Immaculée Conception” • “Manifeste du surréalisme” • “Nadja” • “The Magnetic Fields”
Movement / Style Dada • Surrealism • automatism
Subjects Of Study Surrealism

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André Breton
André Breton: Manifeste du surréalisme
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Louis Aragon
French author
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Philippe Soupault
French writer
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire
French author
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Théophile Gautier
French author
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Yves Bonnefoy
French author
Antonin Artaud as Jean Massieu
Antonin Artaud
French author and actor
Jules Laforgue
Jules Laforgue
French poet
Catulle Mendès.
Catulle Mendès
French author
Gustave Kahn, oil painting by Roger Casse, 1931; in a private collection
Gustave Kahn
French poet
Francis Picabia
Francis Picabia
French artist
Éluard, 1947
Paul Éluard
French author
Desnos
Robert Desnos
French poet
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Paul Nougé
Belgian author
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Clément Pansaers
Belgian poet
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
French writer
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Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
French critic
Lamartine, detail of an oil painting by François Gérard; in the Musée National de Versailles et des Trianons
Alphonse de Lamartine
French poet, historian, and statesman
Jean Cocteau, 1939.
Jean Cocteau
French poet and artist
François Mauriac
François Mauriac
French author
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Charles Maurras
French writer and political theorist

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