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Jacques Vaché

Born

in Lorient, France

September 07, 1895

Died

January 06, 1919

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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.

In 1914 he went in Brest to fight in WWI and to work as a translator; in 1915 was wounded and later in a Nantes' hospital he became friend with the physician André Breton. Since this moment Vaché became one the main inspirations for Surrealism and for Breton's anthology of Black Humour.

Jacques Vaché his also remembered when on 24 June 1917 dressed as a british soldier he jumped on the seats of Conservatoire Maubel just after the first act of Les Mamelles de Tirésias by Guillaume Apollinaire treating the public with a gun.

He died in a hotel room in Nantes on 6 Janua ...more

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	4 Dada Suicides: Selected Texts of Arthur Cravan, Jacques Rigaut, Julien Torma & Jacques Vaché by Arthur Cravan, Jacques Rigaut, Julien Torma 4.27 avg rating — 131 ratings — published 1995 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Soixante-dix-neuf lettres de guerre 3.68 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 1919 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jacques Vaché and the Roots of Surrealism: Including Vaché's War Letters and other Writings by Jacques Vaché, Franklin Rosemont 4.25 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Parad la guerra o me pego un tiro by Jacques Vaché, René Parra (Translator) 3.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Quarante-trois lettres de guerre à Jeanne Derrien 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Les Solennels: Textes et dessins inédits 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2007	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	9 cm. by Jacques Vaché, Yves Klein, Henri Michaux 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	EN ROUTE MAUVAISE TROUPE ! 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lettres de Guerre - Revues Maintenant - Le Bord de la Mer by Jacques Vaché, Arthur Cravan, Julien Torma 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	DEUX LETTRES INEDITES Presentee Par Alain et Odette Virmaux 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“You know the horrible life of the alarm clock – it’s a monster that has always appalled me because of the number of things its eyes project, and the way that good fellow stares at me when I enter a room.”
― Jacques Vache

tags: clock, time

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“Well then – I see two ways of letting things take their course – Create one’s own sensations with the help of a flamboyant collision of rare words – not often, mind you – or else neatly draw the angles, the squares, the entire geometry of feelings – those of the moment, naturally.”
― Jacques Vache

tags: art, creativity, writing

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“Black Humor (Umor): a sensation --of the theatrical (and joyless) pointlessness of everything.”
― Jacques Vache

tags: humor, life

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