Chantefleurs, a Chanter Sur N'Importe Quel Air
by: Robert Desnos

Hardcover. Paris, Grund, 1st illust thus, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed boards, illustrated in color by Ludmila Jirincova. Robert Desnos, the famous surrealist poet in the 20s, later joined the Resistance while working as a journalist in Paris. He forged papers and passed along information, but also wrote humorous and lyrical animal poems to cheer little children, though they often had a double meaning. This is his last book, published in 1944. In February of that year, he was deported to Auschwitz and later Treblinka. He died of typhus soon after the liberation. FRENCH TEXT.