Jacques Baron (1905–1986) was a French surrealist poet whose first collection of poems was published in Aventure in 1921.
Although he was initially involved with the Dada movement, he became a founding member of the Surrealist movement following his meeting with André Breton in 1921,[1] and contributed to La Révolution surréaliste.
[2] Although fascinated by dream-like states of the nomadic unconscious and other imaginary worlds of the "marvelous", a dispute with Breton in 1929 got him expelled from the movement, and prompted him to contribute to Un Cadavre, an anti-Breton pamphlet.
He later collaborated on a number of reviews such as Le Voyage en Grèce, La Critique Sociale and Minotaure.
Baron also wrote a novel, Charbon de mer (1935), a mémoire, L’An 1 du Surréalisme (1969), and a collection of poems, L’Allure poétique (1973).