Louis Aragon
(1897-1982)

Died aged c. 85

Louis Aragon (French: [lwi aʁaɡɔ̃], , 3 October 1897 – 24 December 1982) 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 also a novelist and editor, a long-time member of the Communist Party and a member of the Académie Goncourt. After 1959, he was a frequent nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Commemorated on 3 plaques

Dans la maison qui se trouvait ici au 4 Rue Chambovet fut créée et publiée de 1941 a 1944 la revue littéraire "Confluences" dirigée par René Tavernier. Se Réunissait aussi Le Conseil National des Écrivains de la zone sud. C'est également ici que Louis Aragon écrivit "Il N'y A Pas D'Amour Heureux"

English translation: In the house that was here at 4 Rue Chambovet was created and published from 1941 to 1944 the literary journal “Confluences” directed by René Tavernier. The National Council of Writers of the Southern Zone also met. It is also here that Louis Aragon wrote “There Is No Happy Love” [AWS Translate]

4 Rue Chambovet, 3ème, Lyon, France where they wrote "Il N'y A Pas D'Amour Heureux"

Louis ARAGON et Elsa TRIOLET ont séjourné en ce lieu de l'automne 1941 à l'automne 1942

English translation: Louis Aragon and Elsa Triolet stayed here from autumn 1941 to autumn 1942

rue des Ponchettes, Nice, France where they stayed (1941-1942)

Dans l'effervescence créatrice des années 1920, l'hôtel Istria accueillit, entre autres artistes, Francis Picabia, Marcel Duchamp, Moïse Kisling, peintres, Man Ray, photographe, Kiki de Montparnasse, modèle et égérie, Erik Satie, compositeur, Rainer Maria Rilke, Tristan Tzara, Vladimir Maïakovski, poètes, et Louis Aragon qui y rejoignait Elsa Triolet. "Ne s'éteint que ce qui brilla ... Lorsque tu descendais de l'hôtel Istria, Tout était différent Rue Campagne Première, En mil neuf cent vingt neuf , vers l'heure de midi ..." Louis Aragon (Il ne m'est Paris que d'Elsa.)

English translation: In the creative effervescence of the 1920s, Hotel Istria welcomed, among other artists, Francis Picabia, Marcel Duchamp, Moïse Kisling, painters, Man Ray, photographer, Kiki de Montparnasse, model and mighty, Erik Satie, composer, Rainer Maria Rilke, Tristan Tzara, Vladimir Maiakovski, poets, and Louis Aragon who joined there Elsa Triolet. “Only that which shone... When you came down from the Hotel Istria, Everything was different in Rue Campagne Première, in 1929, around noon...” Louis Aragon (I'm Paris only from Elsa.)

29 rue Campagne-Première, Paris, France where they worked