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The Founder of Surrealism Helped Inspire a Revolution in Haiti
https://jacobin.com/2022/07/andre-breton-haiti-revolution-communists-surrealism
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In 1945, the French revolutionary poet André Breton took a trip to Haiti. Breton was fascinated by Haiti’s culture and tradition of revolt — and his own talks helped trigger a popular uprising against the country’s dictator, Élie Lescot.
