Louis Aragon

Louis Aragon (1897 - 1982), French historian, poet and novelist.

Member of the Dadaist and subsequently the surrealist circles.

Married Elsa Triolet[?] in 1939, the sister-in-law of Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky.

During the occupation of France he wrote for the underground press Les Editions de Minuit[?], and was one of several writers who adopted the name of a French region as a pseudonym.