Louis Aragon
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Louis Aragon was a French poet who was one of the leading voices of the surrealist movement in France. He co-founded with André Breton and Philippe Soupault the surrealist review Littérature. He was a
Portrait of Aragon, before 1982
Portrait of Louis Aragon by Man Ray, half-tone print.
Elsa Triolet
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Ella Yuryevna Kagan, known as Elsa Triolet, was a Russian-French writer and translator known for being the first woman to be awarded the Prix Goncourt.
Louis Aragon
…Bloch's death in 1947. The newspaper, which counted Émile Danoën among its collaborators, closed in March 1953. In 1939, he married Russian-born author Elsa Triolet, the sister of Lilya Brik, a mistress and then partner of Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. He had met her in 1928, and she became his muse starting…
Triolet in 1925
Elsa (right) with her mother, Yelena, and her sister, Lilya, in 1906