b. Strasbourg French Poet Mentored by Denise Levy. 1921 Meets Claude Cahun. 1923 Meets with Louis Aragon. 1924 Automatic writing. 1925 Signed the Declaration of January 27 1925. Published in L'Humanité ->. 1927 Signs letter With your Permission to Representatives of the Ardennes. Signs Manifesto Hands Off Love in defense of Charlie Chaplin. 1928 Feb; Fifth Session of Investigating Sex : Maxime Alexandre, Andre Breton, Marcel Duhamel, Max Ernst, Marcel Noll, Benjamin Peret, Jacques Prevert, Raymond Queneau, Georges Sadoul, Pierre Unik. Affair with Youki; Breton protested that Robert Desnos had been saying nasty things about him and Marcel Noll. 1928 Mentioned in Nadja by Andre Breton. 1929 Drifted away from Surrealist group. See articles -> from ''L'Humanite]]. See Timeline