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Born September 13, 1889 • Narbonne • France
Died June 17, 1960 (aged 70) • Solesmes • France
Founder “Nord-Sud”
Notable Works “Nord-Sud”
Movement / Style Cubism • Surrealism • The Beehive
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René Char
French author
Pablo Picasso: Apollinaire
Guillaume Apollinaire
French poet
Francis Picabia
Francis Picabia
French artist
Pablo Picasso: Max Jacob
Max Jacob
French poet
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Paul Nougé
Belgian author
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Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
French critic
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Charles Péguy
French author
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Francis Viélé-Griffin
French poet
Pierre Louÿs
Pierre Louÿs
French author
Jean Cocteau, 1939.
Jean Cocteau
French poet and artist
Antonin Artaud as Jean Massieu
Antonin Artaud
French author and actor
André Breton
André Breton
French poet
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Henri Michaux
French painter and poet
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Louis Aragon
French author
Prévert, 1951
Jacques Prévert
French poet
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Philippe Soupault
French writer
Éluard, 1947
Paul Éluard
French author
Desnos
Robert Desnos
French poet
Senegalese Pres. Léopold Senghor addressing the United Nations General Assembly, 1961
Léopold Senghor
president of Senegal
Émile Verhaeren, drawing by Lucien Wolles, c. 1900; in the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels.
Émile Verhaeren
Belgian poet

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