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Jacques Vaché

poet

1895 (Lorient, France) – 1919 (Nantes)

Vaché met Breton in a neurological ward, where both worked during WWI. Breton wrote four introductory essays to Vaché’s published letters to Breton and others, and was much influenced by him.

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