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André Breton

André Breton
André Breton, French poet and author (d. 1966)

André Robert Breton was a French writer and poet, the co-founder, leader, and principal theorist of surrealism. His writings include the first Surrealist Manifesto of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as "pure psychic automatism".

19 February 1896

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