René Char (1974)

René Char (1907-1988) was a French poet and member of the French Resistance. During the 1950s and 1960s, despite brief and unhappy experiences in theater and film, Char reached full maturity as a poet. He was a friend and close associate of Albert Camus, Georges Bataille and Maurice Blanchot among writers, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró and Victor Brauner among painters. Char was to have been in the car involved in the accident that killed both Albert Camus and Michel Gallimard.