- Member of the PCF (french communist party) at 17 ,he was a member of the Resistance, arrested and deported to Mathausen concentration camp. He worked after the war for the French government in a department directed by a communist minister. He then became director of French literary magazine "Les Lettres françaises" from 1948 to 72. He then criticized the Communist party .
- Friend of Pablo Picasso, he wrote many books on him and other artists. He also wrote novels "Les Revenantes" and autobiographies.
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