History of the Elsa

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 s/ 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.