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Born August 2, 1897 • France
Died March 11, 1990 (aged 92) • Paris • France
Notable Works “Age of Assassins” • “Le Nègre” • “The Magnetic Fields”
Movement / Style Dada • Surrealism • automatism
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Louis Aragon
French author
André Breton
André Breton
French poet
Jean Cocteau, 1939.
Jean Cocteau
French poet and artist
Pablo Picasso: Max Jacob
Max Jacob
French poet
Francis Picabia
Francis Picabia
French artist
Éluard, 1947
Paul Éluard
French author
Desnos
Robert Desnos
French poet
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Tchicaya U Tam’si
Congolese poet
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
French writer
Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832
Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny
French author
French write and Nobel laureate André Gide
André Gide
French writer
Alphonse Daudet
Alphonse Daudet
French author
Colette
Colette
French writer
French writer Michel Houellebecq in 2014, wearing a dark jacket over a blue shirt, standing in front of a blue backdrop with white text and logos.
Michel Houellebecq
French author
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Moroccan French author
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Théophile Gautier
French author
François Mauriac
François Mauriac
French author
Romains
Jules Romains
French author
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Jean Cayrol
French author
Scarron, engraving by Georg Friedrich Schmidt after a drawing by Antoine Boizot
Paul Scarron
French author

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