Aragon was married to the Russian writer Elsa Triolet (1896-1970), sister-in-law of the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky.
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Aragon was a founding member of the surrealist movement and an ardent communist. The illegitimate son of Louis Andrieux, the French ambassador to Spain, he was given the last name Aragon by his father. Aragon was obsessed all his life with the concept of legitimacy. He began studying medicine in 1916, and at medical school met Andre Breton, who would become a fellow surrealist. Aragon served in World War I, and after the war, he and Breton founded a literary review to showcase French avant-garde more...
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1897 Paris, France, Western Europe,
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