ReneChar

 1907 b. June 14th in L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue in the Vaucluse  
   French Poet.
   Parents Emile Char and Marie-Therese Rouget. 
   His father was mayor and managing director of the Vaucluse plasterworks. 
   Spent his childhood in Nevons; studied as a boarder at the school of Avignon.
 1925 Student at L'Ecole de Commerce de Marseille, reading Plutarch, 
   Francois Villon, Racine, the German Romantics, Alfred de Vigny, 
   Gerard de Nerval and Charles Baudelaire?. 

 1927 Military service in the artillery in Nimes.

 1928 Cloches sur le coeur published as a compilation of poems.

 1929 Founded the journal Meridiens with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Cayatte|Andre Cayatte.
    Published three issues. 
    Sent  copies of his book Arsenal to Paul Eluard, who in the autumn 
    came to visit him. 
    In late November he moved to Paris, where he met Louis Aragon, 
    Andre Breton, and Rene Crevel, and joined the surrealists.  
    Profession de foi du sujet published in December in the 12th. issue of 
    La Revolution Surrealiste. 
    Meets Luis Bunuel
    Close friend of many painters notably Georges Braque, 
    Alberto Giacometti and Pablo Picasso.

 1930 Contributes to Le Surrealisme au service de la revolution?.
    Publishes "Artine" with a frontispiece engraving by Salvador Dali 
    Poet seeks model for Poems. Sittings exclusive during mutual sleep. 
    Rene Char, 8b, Rue des Saules, Paris. 
    No point coming before it is completely dark. Light is fatal for me. 
    Two women applied to meet with him.
    Andre Breton and Paul Eluard contributed to the advertising flier.

 1933 Photograph by Man Ray. 
 1934 Signatory to Appel a la Lutte against the rise in fascism. 

 1940 Joined the French Resistance and served with the pseudonym Captain 
   Alexandre.
   Commanded the Durance -> parachute drop zone. 
   He wrote about these events in his prose poems Feuillets d'Hypnos in an 
   extraordinary manner. 
   Designed for the Marseille Card Game.

 1945 Initiated a lasting friendship with Albert Camus -> published in Portfolio.

 1950 Together with Albert Camus provides Text for Henriette Grindat's 
   project La posterérité du soleil.

 1950's and 1960s, despite brief and unhappy experiences in the theater and 
   film, he reached full maturity as a poet.

 1960's Joined the battle against the stationing of atomic weapons in 
   Provence.             
           A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof

 1988? d. February 19th of a heart attack in Paris.

    See Timeline

    The Hotel Campredon - (also known as the Maison Rene Char) in L'Isle sur la Sorgue is a public collection of his manuscripts, 
    drawings, paintings and objets d'art.

    See wiki -> and Resistance in Every Way -> and downloads ->