In August, he sent twenty-six copies of his book Arsenal, published in Nîmes, to Paul Éluard, who in the autumn came to visit him at L'Isle sur la Sorgue.

In late November, Char moved to Paris, where he met Louis Aragon, André Breton, and René Crevel, and joined the surrealists.

Throughout his career, Char's work appeared in various editions, often with artwork by notable figures, including Kandinsky, Picasso, Braque, Miró, Matisse and Vieira da Silva.

The Hotel Campredon (also known as the Maison René Char) in L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue was a public collection of his manuscripts, drawings, paintings and objets d'art, until 2016.

Char was a friend and close associate of the writers Albert Camus,[2][1] Georges Bataille and Maurice Blanchot, and of the artists Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró and Victor Brauner.