Biography

He was born in the Lot in 1899, arrived in Paris in 1910, took part in a Dadaïst event in 1917 and in the Surrealist  movement of which he was expelled in 1928, and in the Aventure magazine, in 1921-22. He had a passion for Lautréamont and Alfred Jarry whose name he gave to the company he created in 1926 with Artaud. For the stage, he wrote Le Mystère de l’amour (1927), Victor ou Les Enfants au pouvoir (1928), Le Coup de Trafalgar (1934), Les Demoiselles du large (1938), Loup Garou (1939), Le Sabre de mon père in 1951, the year he died.