André BRETON.

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André BRETON.
Postcard addressed to Paul Éluard. Paris, August 9, 1930. Postcard in chromolithography showing a fortune teller whose face, cut out in an oval, has been filled in by a holographic figure activated by a pull tab; autograph message signed "André" on the back of another laminated postcard. Remarkable autograph letter signed "André Breton" on the back of a postcard transformed by him with a hologram activated by a pull tab. The leader of the surrealist movement intends to respond to the attacks of Emmanuel Berl and the Barbusse newspaper, Monde. He distributes the contributions and proposes the publication of a supplement to Surrealism in the service of the revolution. If this supplement was not produced, the articles suggested here are all found in issue no. 2 of Surrealism at the Service of the Revolution published in October 1930. My dear little Paul, thank you, thank you and thank you again my dear little children. I agree completely and everyone here agrees completely with what Paul tells me on his card. It shouldn't be able to last. The new, sensational fact is that the shit in question is asking for mercy (Monde, August 8). This would be the time to give it to him in the form of a coup (de coup de grâce). The article on Bakunin unbreakable indeed. The trouble is that the n°2 of Surrealism is too far away. Here is what I propose and what Aragon and Thirion support: if one had the means it would be excellent to publish, as a supplement to the n°1 of the review (4 pages same format, same layout) a leaflet containing a few articles on the subjects of great topicality which have presented themselves these last days: Thirion seems to me quite indicated to finish with Berl and he asks only that. Aragon would speak about the last issue of Le Crapouillot on the war: something, it seems! You, Paul, would deal with the exploitation by the N.R.F. and others of Jacques Rigaut (a few texts in the margin), you, René Char, if you wanted, of the "I
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