Events Jacques Vache dies at the beginning of the year. Andre Breton enters into correspondence with Tristan Tzara. The group of three get to know Paul Eluard andre Breton copies Ducasse’s Poésies. Publishes it in first edition of Litterature. Andre Breton issues an enquiry: Why do you write?, publishing the responses in Litterature. Publications/films Andre Breton proposes a new journal, initially to be entitled ''Le Nouveau Monde'', to be edited with Louis Aragon and Philippe Soupault. The first issue appears in March, entitled ironically Littérature? as suggested by Paul Valéry after a line from Verlaine: And everything else is literature. Andre Breton and Philippe Soupault write Les Champs magnétiques. Andre Breton Mont de piété. Art works Marcel Duchamp LHOOQ ~>. Treaties of Versailles, Sant Germain, and Neuilly reorganise European borders Arrest and murder of Rosa Luxemburg ~>. International Labor Office (ILO) created by the League of Nations. Modigliani ''Grande Nu ~>. Back to 1918 Forward to 1920 See Timeline