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Paul Eluard (14 December 1895 – 18 November 1952)
Paul Éluard was the pen name of Eugène Émile Paul Grindel, a French poet who was one of the founders of the surrealist movement.
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He was born in Saint-Denis, just outside of Paris, son of Clément Grindel and wife Jeanne Cousin. At age 16, after a happy childhood, Éluard contracted tuberculosis and interrupted his studies. He met Gala, born Elena Ivanovna Diakonova, whom he married in 1917, in the Swiss sanatorium of Davos.
Together they had a daughter named Cécile. Around this time Éluard wrote his first poems.
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He was particularly inspired by Walt Whitman. In 1918, Jean Paulhan “discovered” him and introduced him to André Breton and Louis Aragon. This was his introduction to the Surrealist movement.
After a marital crisis, he travelled, returning to France in 1924.
His poems of this time reflect his difficulties during the period, in which he had another bout of tuberculosis and separated from Gala when she left him for Salvador Dal