![]() ![]() Paroles, Prévert's first collection of poetry, appearedlate in 1945. In the same years he beganwriting film scripts, his first film ("It's In The Bag")appearing in 1932. In 1933 he attended the International Workers'Theatre Olympiad in Moscow for the première of his play,"The Battle of Fontenoy". In the 1930s he worked with a theatre company, the "OctoberGroup", linked to the Communist Party though not always reflectingthe Party's views. His first poemswere published in the same year, and in 1931 there appeared hisfirst major success: "Attempt to Describe a Dinner of Headsin Paris - France", subsequently published in Paroles. "Expelled" fromthis group by Breton in 1930, because of his "occupationor character", he responded with a savage satirical attackon Breton, "Death of a Gentleman". In 1925 he began to associate with the surrealists, includingAndré Breton and Louis Aragon. ![]() He left school in 1915 and workedat various jobs until 1920 when he served in the military in Lorraineand with the French occupation forces in Turkey. ![]() Jacques Prévert, France's most widely read poet since VictorHugo, was born in Paris in 1900. ![]() "Poems of Jacques Prévert" "Poems of Jacques Prévert" Alastair Campbell ![]()
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