“less like a servant, less like a domestic.”
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Paul Éluard
Paul Éluard, born Eugène Émile Paul Grindel, was a French poet and one of the founders of the Surrealist movement.
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culture · French poet (1895–1952) · writer · politician · poet · French resistance fighter · artist · painter · art collector · librettist · also Paul Éluard, Polʹ Eli︠u︡ar, Paul Grindel, P. Éluard, Jean Du Haut, Eugène-Emile-Paul Grindel
Born 14 December 1895 · Died 18 November 1952 · Q152176
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2026· 5 entries
Ouest-France: Âgé de 19 ans, cet élève passé par le collège Paul-éluard de gennes intègre l’école Polytechnique
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Fabula: Paul Éluard, Le dur désir de durer
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Ouest-France: À Saint-Herblain, la bibliothèque Paul-Éluard a 40 ans, mais est beaucoup plus ancienne
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La Voix du Nord: « Je est un autre » : quand l’art va à la rencontre des élèves du collège Paul Éluard de Beuvrages
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2024· 1 entry
Le Parisien: Saint-Denis : quand le lycée Paul-Éluard collabore avec la maison d’éducation de la Légion d’honneur
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2023· 1 entry
Le Parisien: Saint-Denis : le lycée Paul-Éluard se mobilise pour Ouahiba, une élève «brillante» menacée d’expulsion
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2018· 1 entry
Ladepeche.fr: Un bon cru à Paul-éluard
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2016· 1 entry
“War is coming to an end. We will now fight for happiness after having fought for Life”
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1952· 3 entries
Died 1952-11-18.
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“A woman is more beautiful than the world in which I live, and I close my eyes.”
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“Paul Éluard on La Fontaine”
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1946· 1 entry
Inspired the work Le temps déborde in 1947, as well as "De l'horizon à l'horizon de tous", which traced the path that led Éluard from suffering to hope
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1943· 1 entry
Together with Pierre Seghers, François Lachenal, and Jean Lescure, he assembled the texts of several poets of the Resistance in a controversial book called L'Honneur des poètes (The Honour of Poets)
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1936· 1 entry
In Spain, he learned of the Franquist counterrevolution, against which he protested violently
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1934· 1 entry
Éluard married Nusch (Maria Benz), a music hall artist, whom he had met through his friends Man Ray and Pablo Picasso
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1928· 1 entry
Had another bout of tuberculosis and returned to the Clavadel sanatorium with Gala
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1919· 2 entries
Éluard wrote to Gala: "War is coming to an end
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Jean Paulhan, an eminent academic and writer, responded to his letter expressing his admiration
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1917· 1 entry
“Even the strongest are falling. We advanced 50 kilometres, three days without bread or wine.”
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1916· 1 entry
Chose the name Paul Éluard, a matronymic borrowed from his maternal grandmother
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1895· 1 entry
Born 1895-12-14.
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