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Louis Aragon

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Louis Aragon (October 3, 1897 - December 24, 1982), French historian, poet and novelist.

Member of the Dadaist and subsequently the surrealist circles.

Married Elsa Triolet in 1939, the sister-in-law of Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky.

During the occupation of France he wrote for the underground press Les Editions de Minuit, and was one of several writers who adopted the name of a French region as a pseudonym. After process of Manouchian group when germans begun propaganda campaign- red poster, germans wanted to show french that resistance is only a group of foreigners mainly jewish who were on sevice London and Russia- Aragon wrote poem which was tittled "Red Poster" which he gave honour killed foreigners who fought for France Freedom.

In the 1970s, came out as a bisexual.