Desnos, Robert Pierre
(1900–1945)
Desnos, Robert PierreDesnos, Robert PierreRobert Pierre Desnos (B * PARIS, 1900 – D † TEREZIN CONCENTRATION CAMP, CZECHOSLOVAKIA, 1945) French poet, son of a butcher, from the Halles neighborhood of Paris who shared the colorful, robust feeling for life of the workers of that area. Desnos writes: » I had been 14 for just three weeks before the declaration of war, the other, the first world war, the one that gave birth to the 20th century. Yeah, 14 years old on the 4th of July 1914. And the…