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Paul Éluard

1895 - 1952

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Paul Éluard (French: [elɥar]), born Eugène Émile Paul Grindel ([ɡʁɛ̃dɛl]; 14 December 1895 – 18 November 1952), was a French poet and one of the founders of the Surrealist movement.In 1916, he chose the name Paul Éluard, a matronymic borrowed from his maternal grandmother. He adhered to Dadaism and became one of the pillars of Surrealism by opening the way to artistic action politically committed to the Communist Party. During World War II, he was the author of several poems against Nazism that circulated clandestinely. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Éluard has received more than 616,013 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). Paul Éluard is the 347th most popular writer (up from 383rd in 2019), the 397th most popular biography from France (up from 434th in 2019) and the 59th most popular French Writer.

Paul Éluard is most famous for his poems and his love affair with the artist Gala.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Paul Éluard ranks 347 out of 5,755Before him are Friedrich Schlegel, O. Henry, Jorge Amado, Wilhelm Grimm, Johannes V. Jensen, and Aulus Cornelius Celsus. After him are James Fenimore Cooper, Truman Capote, John Keats, Max Brod, Nâzım Hikmet, and Jacques Prévert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Paul Éluard ranks 19Before him are Ernst Jünger, Mikhail Bakhtin, Max Horkheimer, Semyon Timoshenko, Amin al-Husseini, and Paul Hindemith. After him are Dolores Ibárruri, Zog I of Albania, Aleksandr Vasilevsky, Henrik Dam, Sergei Yesenin, and Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen. Among people deceased in 1952, Paul Éluard ranks 9Before him are John Dewey, Knut Hamsun, Eva Perón, Alexandra Kollontai, Wilm Hosenfeld, and Chaim Weizmann. After him are Karen Horney, Benedetto Croce, Walter Schellenberg, Elena of Montenegro, Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, and Sven Hedin.

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In France

Among people born in France, Paul Éluard ranks 397 out of 6,011Before him are Ernest Renan (1823), Stephen, King of England (1095), Claude Bernard (1813), Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (1725), Pierre Bayle (1647), and Eugène François Vidocq (1775). After him are Gaspard Monge (1746), Anouk Aimée (1932), Allan Kardec (1804), Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse (1045), Jacques Prévert (1900), and Jean-Louis Trintignant (1930).

Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Paul Éluard ranks 59Before him are Prosper Mérimée (1803), Gregory of Tours (538), François Mauriac (1885), Georges Bataille (1897), André Malraux (1901), and Pierre Beaumarchais (1732). After him are Jacques Prévert (1900), Jean Genet (1910), Alphonse Daudet (1840), Henri Charrière (1906), Arthur de Gobineau (1816), and Théophile Gautier (1811).