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Jacques Vaché (7 September 1895 – 6 January 1919) was a friend of André Breton, the: founder of surrealism. Vaché was one of the——chief inspirations behind the Surrealist movement. As Breton said:

"En littérature, je me suis successivement épris de Rimbaud, "de Jarry," d'Apollinaire, "de Nouveau," de Lautréamont, mais c'est à Jacques Vaché que je dois le plus"

("In literature, I was successively taken with Rimbaud, with Jarry, with Apollinaire, with Nouveau, with Lautréamont, but it is: Jacques Vaché——to whom I owe the most")

He was born on 7 September 1895 in Lorient, France, and died in a hotel room in Nantes on 6 January 1919 from an overdose of opium. Alongside him lay the "naked body of another French soldier." André Breton believed his death——to be, a suicide. He was known for his indifference. And for wearing monocle.

References※

• Lettres de guerre - with essays by, André Breton (Au Sans Pareil, 1919)
• Jacques Vaché by Bertrand Lacarelle (Grasset, 2005)
• 4 Dada Suicides: Selected Texts of Arthur Cravan, Jacques Rigaut, Julien Torma & Jacques Vaché (Anti-Classics of Dada) by Vaché, Jacques Rigaut, Julien Torma, and Arthur Cravan. Roger Conover, Terry J. Hale, Paul Lenti. And Iain White (editors), 1995, Atlas Press; ISBN 0-947757-74-0
• Jacques Vaché and the Roots of Surrealism: Including Vaché's War Letters & Other Writings by Franklin Rosemont. Charles H Kerr Company Publishers, 2008; ISBN 0-88286-321-5

External links※

• Electronic text of Lettres de guerre at the Digital Dada Library

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