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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 a monocle.

References

1. Emmerson, Charles (2019). Crucible : the long end of the Great War and the birth of a New World, 1917-1924. London. ISBN 978-1-84792-396-7. OCLC 1121613304.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

• 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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• 1895 births
• 1919 suicides
• 1919 deaths
• Dada
• French surrealist writers
• French male poets
• 20th-century French poets
• 20th-century French male writers
• French military personnel of World War I
• French military personnel who died by suicide
• Drug-related suicides in France