Cimetière de Montmartre (continued): #3: Jean-Marc Debenedetti

Jean-Marc Debenedetti (1952–2009) was a new name to me, and he's not on the cemetery map either. But he's described on his grave as a '[P]oète, peintre et sculpture'. From what I can glean online, he was a student at the lycée Jacques Decour (grave also in Montmartre and to come later), became a teacher at the lycée Janson de Sailly and died of pneumonia. According to a short article by former teaching colleague Claude Courtot, he published his first collection of poetry in 1971, and he was particularly fond of surrealism, the work of Benjamin Péret ... and Mexico.

Benjamin Péret: Cimetière des Batignolles #3

Benjamin Péret was a much banned surrealist anarchist writer also known as Satyremont, Peralda and Peralta. Being thrown out of Brazil for 'communist agitation' was only one of the many events in his relatively short but very full life. He is buried not very far from the man he first met in 1920, and for whom he never lost his respect: André Breton.

 

 'BENJAMIN PÉRET

1899 – 1959

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JE NE MANGE PAS DE

CE PAIN-LÀ'

The collection of poems Je ne mange pas de ce pain-là  (1936) is Péret's expression of non-allegiance to bourgeois society.