Louis ARAGON was born in Paris in 1897.his mother, Marguerite TOUCAS-MASSILLON, ran a boarding house at 20 Avenue Carnot - Paris 17th between 1899 and 1904, when the family left the capital to settle in Neuilly sur Seine.from 1908, ARAGON began to show an interest in words and poetry. After obtaining his baccalauréat in Latin and science, ARAGON began studying medicine in 1916. In 1917, he was drafted as an auxiliary doctor at the Val-de-Grâce in Paris. On his return from the trenches, ARAGON devoted himself to writing poetry and novels, joining the DADA movement which had appeared in Paris in 1919.In 1924, with his friend André BRETON, Louis ARAGON launched Surrealism.In 1927, he joined the French Communist Party.
In 1928, Louis ARAGON met Elsa TRIOLET. She became his muse.ARAGON became a journalist at L'Humanité while Elsa designed jewelry for Parisian haute-couture between 1929 and 1932.Together, they made several trips to Moscow and the USSR.Elsa and Louis married on February 28, 1939. They stayed together until Elsa's death in 1970. When the Second World War broke out, ARAGON was drafted again, before going to England and returning to France. Under the German occupation, he and Elsa were intellectual resistance fighters, thanks to their writing. In 1942, ARAGON published 'Les Martyrs', about the execution of 27 hostages at Chateaubriant. In 1945, Elsa TRIOLET became the first woman to win the Prix Goncourt for 'Le Premier Accroc coûte deux cents francs', which recounts the role of women in the Resistance. In 1946, Elsa TRIOLET attended the Nuremberg trial, which she later recounted in "Les Lettres Françaises" After the war, both writers immersed themselves in writing, drawing inspiration from their wartime experiences and their travels in the USSR and Eastern Bloc countries. The Algerian War and the end of colonization inspired ARAGON to write one of his most beautiful collections of poems, including "Aimer à perdre la Raison", "L'Avenir de l'Homme est la Femme" (which became the song "La Femme est l'Avenir de l'Homme") published in 1963. Elsa died at their home (Le Moulin de Villeneuve) in June 1970. After the death of his beloved muse, ARAGON changed his life, continued his political struggle and continued to write, again and again. Les Adieux" was his last collection of poems, published in 1980.
