Louis Aragon

Birth Name:
Louis Aragon
Birth Date:
October 3, 1897
Birth Place:
Paris, France
Death Date:
December 24, 1982
Place of Death:
Maison Elsa Triolet-Aragon, Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines, France
Age:
85
Cause of Death:
Natural causes
Cemetery Name:
Maison Elsa Triolet-Aragon
Claim to Fame:
Writers and Poets
Associates:
Louis Aragon was a French poet who was one of the leading voices of the surrealist movement in France. He co-founded with André Breton and Philippe Soupault the surrealist review Littérature. He was also a novelist and editor, a long-time member of the Communist Party and a member of the Académie Goncourt. After 1959, he was a frequent nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature. 'Elsa's Eyes', the poem to his Russian-born wife, Elsa Triolet, who died in 1970, stood as one of his most memorable pieces along with 'The Peasant in Paris,' 'Crazy About Elsa,' 'Put to Death' and 'Holy Week.'

Cemetery Information:

Final Resting Place:

Maison Elsa Triolet-Aragon

Moulin de Villeneuve, Rue de la Villeneuve

Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines, , 78730

France

Europe

Grave Location:

Parc of Moulin de Villeneuve

Grave Location Description

As you park at the Elsa Triolet-Aragon House at Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines, France make your way to the back of the main house and look to the right for the simple trail that crosses the small creek and leads to the final resting place of Louis Aragon and his wife Elsa Triolet.

Grave Location GPS

48.568919, 1.926137

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