1914 b. February 25th. Perpignan. 1932 Gravitating towards Paris. Journalist on satirical magazine Coq Catalan. 1937 Aided Andre Breton with l'Anthologie de l'Humour noir. 1937-1939 Jeu de Dessin Communique with Benjamin Peret; Remedios Varo and Andre Breton. See ->. His friends were Yves Tanguy, Victor Brauner, Roberto Matta, Jacques Herold, Remedios Varo, Esteban Frances. 1940 May; contributed to Frappe de l'Echo, illustrated by Victor Brauner. Leaves for Perpignon with Jacques Herold. 1941 m. Laurence Iche daughter of sculptor Rene Iche. Their daughter Aurelia, died Aug. 1943. Joined La Main A Plume. One of the signatories to Etat de presence, the group's founding manifesto, with Adolphe Acker, Marc Patin, Regine Raufast, Jean-François Chabrun, Hans Schoenhoff and Gerard Vulliamy. 1942 Joined the Resistance Published Essai d'un dictionnaire exact de la langue francaise, Serrures en friches et Picasso. 1943 Jacques Herold joins him in Paris. 1944 July; Denounced and arrested. Imprisoned in and tortured at Fontainebleau July 4th. by the Nazis. July 21st executed by firing squad in the Plain of Chanfroy with his friends Jean Simonpoli, directeur des Cahiers de poesie and Marco Menagoz, a young norman poet published in Feuillets de 81. See web -> and wiki (Fr) ->. See Timeline