Terse Factoids

Eluard, Paul (1895-1952)

• born Eugene Grindel, Saint-Denis, Paris
• suffered from TB, spent several years in sanitariums
• wrote his first book of poems at the front during WWI
• contributed to Litterature, La Revolution Surrealiste, Minotaure, et al
• became a leading poet of the French Resistance during the occupation