Bouquet - Poéme

Robert Desnos
(1900 - 1945)

VIE DE ROBERT DESNOS

Robert Desnos, the son of a café owner, was born on July 4, 1900, in Paris. He attended commercial college, and then worked as a clerk before becoming a literary columnist for the newspaper Paris-Soir. He first published poems in the Dadaist magazine Littérature in 1919, and in 1922 he published his first book, Rrose Selavy, a collection of surrealistic aphorisms. While on leave in Morocco from hi