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André Breton

1896 - 1966

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André Robert Breton (; French: [ɑ̃dʁe ʁɔbɛʁ bʁətɔ̃]; 19 February 1896 – 28 September 1966) was a French writer and poet, the co-founder, leader, and principal theorist of surrealism. His writings include the first Surrealist Manifesto (Manifeste du surréalisme) of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as "pure psychic automatism". Along with his role as leader of the surrealist movement he is the author of celebrated books such as Nadja and L'Amour fou. Those activities, combined with his critical and theoretical work on writing and the plastic arts, made André Breton a major figure in twentieth-century French art and literature. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. André Breton is the 173rd most popular writer (up from 180th in 2019), the 194th most popular biography from France (up from 217th in 2019) and the 35th most popular French Writer.

André Breton was a French writer, art critic, and founding member of the surrealist movement. He is most famous for writing the Surrealist Manifesto in 1924.

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Among writers, André Breton ranks 173 out of 7,302. Before him are Heinrich Böll, Robert Louis Stevenson, Walter Scott, Rudyard Kipling, Pindar, and Nicolas Flamel. After him are Wisława Szymborska, William Faulkner, Anna Wintour, John Milton, Charlotte Brontë, and Nizami Ganjavi.

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Among people born in 1896, André Breton ranks 6. Before him are F. Scott Fitzgerald, Wallis Simpson, Jean Piaget, Georgy Zhukov, and Lev Vygotsky. After him are Imre Nagy, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Tristan Tzara, Roman Jakobson, Antonin Artaud, and Gerty Cori. Among people deceased in 1966, André Breton ranks 2. Before him is Walt Disney. After him are Buster Keaton, Anna Akhmatova, Margaret Sanger, Peter Debye, Georges Lemaître, Alberto Giacometti, Sepp Dietrich, Jean Arp, Sayyid Qutb, and Giuseppe Farina.

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Among people born in France, André Breton ranks 194 out of 6,770. Before him are Rudolf Diesel (1858), Georges Danton (1759), Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809), Louis VII of France (1120), Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683), and Nicolas Flamel (1330). After him are Pope Urban VI (1318), Pierre Bourdieu (1930), Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis (1792), Henry II of England (1133), Alain Prost (1955), and Théodore Géricault (1791).

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Among writers born in France, André Breton ranks 35. Before him are François Villon (1431), Jean Cocteau (1889), Paul Verlaine (1844), Cyrano de Bergerac (1619), Jean Racine (1639), and Nicolas Flamel (1330). After him are Stéphane Mallarmé (1842), Petronius (27), François-René de Chateaubriand (1768), Frédéric Mistral (1830), George Sand (1804), and Roger Martin du Gard (1881).

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