Andre Breton French poet, leader
and principal theorist of Surrealism. He published 3
Surrealist manifestos (1924, 1930, 1934) and
founded Surrealist research laboratories which
employed Freudian techniques in studying the
subconscious. His works include: the poetry
collections Mont de piete (1919),
Les Pas perdus (1924)
and Poemes (1948); he also wrote the partly
autobiographical 'novel' Nadja (1928).
