Paul Eluard

Eugène Grindel, known as Paul Eluard, was born in Saint-Denis in 1895. Having contracted tuberculosis at sixteen, he was treated in a Swiss sanatorium, where he met Gala, who became his wife. During the war, he served in a military hospital before leaving for the front. He was one of the founders of surrealism with Breton, Soupault and Aragon, undertook a journey around the world in 1924, joined the Communist Party and became, under the Occupation, one of the poets of the Resistance. He died on 18 November 1952.

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• PoetryCapital of PainCapitale de la douleurPaul Eluard · 1926Literature