![]() In 1908, he enrolled in the Faculté de Médecine de Paris, met André Breton at Adrienne Monnier's avantgarde bookshop, and his writing came to the attention of Guillaume Apollinaire. In 1912, he went to the Lycée Carnot in Paris, earning degrees in Latin and the sciences in 1914 and in philosophy in 1915. He completed his first novel at age nine. At fourteen months he was reunited with his parents, though he was brought up to believe that his mother was his sister, his father was his godfather and tutor, and his grandmother was his adoptive mother.Īragon was reading and writing even before he started attending Madame Boucher's private school in 1906 and the École Saint-Pierre in 1907. To hide the circumstances of his birth, his parents arranged for him to be brought up as the adoptive son of his maternal grandmother, Claire Toucas. His mother was single, and his father was already married. Works in Biographical and Historical ContextĪ Child Prodigy Aragon was born in the Beaux Quartiers section of Paris on October 3, 1897, to Marguerite Toucas-Massillon and Louis Andrieux Aragon. ![]() ![]() ![]() He was also a founder of the Dada and surrealist movements. Giving his voice and images to the art of France, Aragon was a leading influence on the shaping of the novel in the early to mid-twentieth century. ![]() Louis Aragon was a writer, poet, and critic who analyzed the underlying messages in the literature and politics of France. ![]()
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