He christened it four years later with the name it bears today. Interrupted by the League troubles, work started again under Henri IV who opened it on 20 June 1603. The first stone was laid by his son, Henri III, in 1578, in the presence of the Queen Mother, Catherine de Médicis, under the direction of Baptiste Androuet du Cerceau. Although planned during the reign of Henri II, in 1556, the construction of the bridge was opposed by the Provost of the merchants and the stallholders installed on the other bridges who could see no need for this bridge.
It linked the Louvre, the Abbaye de Saint-Germain (Saint-Germain Abbey) and the Left Bank in royal times. Its design marks the end of the Middle Ages. The Pont-Neuf (New Bridge) is in many respects the first of the modern bridges in Paris and the most famous. The Pont-Neuf is a famous bridge in Paris In 1953 Aragon founded the communist weekly Les Lettres Françaises, a review of arts and literature.Ī versatile and prolific writer in a career spanning more than sixty years, Aragon also produced such works as a poetic autobiography, Le Roman inachevé (1956), and a collection of critical essays on classical authors, La Lumière de Stendhal (1954).Poem by Louis Aragon (Publ. La Semaine sainte (1958 translated as Holy Week, 1961), one of Aragon's best-known novels, is a Marxist view of the France of 1815. Le Monde réel (1933–44), a cycle of four novels, and the six volumes of Les Communistes (1949–51) are chronicles of the march of communism, laden with Marxist propaganda. Meanwhile, in 1928, he had met the Russian-born writer Elsa Triolet, who was to become his lifelong companion and the inspiration for such lyric poems as Les Yeux d'Elsa (1942), Elsa (1959), and Le Fou d'Elsa (1963).ĭuring World War II Aragon was an active member of the intellectual Resistance, publishing the intensely patriotic poems of Le Crève-coeur (1941) and La Diane française (1945). A visit to the Soviet Union in 1930 so impressed him that he subsequently broke off his association with the surrealists and committed himself to writing for the communist cause, becoming editor of the party newspaper, Ce Soir, in 1937. In 1927 Aragon joined the Communist Party.
Together with his essays in Traité du style (1928), these works established Aragon as a leading surrealist writer. In 1926 he produced his first novel, Le Paysan de Paris, which celebrated in surrealist terms the everyday wonders of the city. His first collection of poetry, Feu de joie, appeared in 1920 this was followed by Le Mouvement perpétuel (1925) and La Grande Gaîté (1929).
With André Breton and Philippe Soupault he co-founded the surrealist review Littérature in 1919. French poet, novelist, journalist, and essayist.Īragon was born in Paris, where as a young man he became involved with dadaism and surrealism.
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