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Born May 24, 1899 • Namur • Belgium
Died October 18, 1984 (aged 85) • Paris • France
Movement / Style Surrealism

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Antonin Artaud as Jean Massieu
Antonin Artaud
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Christian Dotremont
Belgian author
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Conrad Detrez
Belgian author
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire
French author
Stendhal, oil painting by Pierre-Joseph Dedreux-Dorcy; in the Bibliothèque Municipale de Grenoble, France.
Stendhal
French author
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Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
French critic
French write and Nobel laureate André Gide
André Gide
French writer
Paul Verlaine, detail from Un Coin de table, oil painting by Henri Fantin-Latour, 1872; in the Louvre, Paris.
Paul Verlaine
French poet
François Mauriac
François Mauriac
French author
Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir
French writer
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Charles Maurras
French writer and political theorist
Nerval, Gérard de
Gérard de Nerval
French poet
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Suzanne Lilar
Belgian author
Hervé Bazin, 1961
Hervé Bazin
French author
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Alfred de Musset
French author
Du Camp
Maxime Du Camp
French writer and photographer
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Marie Gevers
Belgian writer
Adam, Paul
Paul Adam
French author
Claude Cahun
Claude Cahun
French writer, photographer, Surrealist, and performance artist
Jean Cocteau, 1939.
Jean Cocteau
French poet and artist

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