Louis Aragon

Louis Aragon (Known as "Aragon")

Surrealist Co-Founder, Poet of the Resistance, Novelist, Author of Les Yeux d'Elsa

Born Oct 03, 1897

Paris, France

Passed Away Dec 24, 1982 Paris, France

Lifespan 85 years old

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"La femme est l'avenir de l'homme / Elle est la couleur de son âme (Le Fou d'Elsa)."

Archival Overview

French literary titan who co-founded Surrealism with André Breton, became the legendary bard of the French Resistance with Le Crève-cœur and Les Yeux d'Elsa, and devoted his life's poetry to his muse Elsa Triolet.

Biographical Record

A medical orderly in the horrific trenches of World War I, Aragon co-founded Surrealism in 1924 (Le Paysan de Paris). Joining the French Communist Party in 1927, he met Russian-born novelist Elsa Triolet in 1928, inaugurating literature's most celebrated love partnership.

During World War II, Aragon led the National Writers' Committee in the underground resistance, composing luminous clandestine lyric poetry celebrating love and national defiance (Le Musée Grévin, Les Yeux d'Elsa). His poems, set to music by Léo Ferré and Jean Ferrat, became enduring classics of French popular song.

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Final Resting Place

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Moulin de Villeneuve (Tomb alongside Elsa Triolet)
Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines, France

                         GPS: 48.5722, 1.9417                    

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