André Robert Breton was a French writer and poet, known as a principal theorist and co-founder of surrealism. His writings include the first Surrealist Manifesto of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as "pure psychic automatism".
- Occupation
- poet, writer, novelist, essayist
- Citizenship
- France
- Born
- February 19, 1896, February 18, 1896
- Died
- September 28, 1966
