Central Bureau of Surrealist Research

15, rue de Grenelle, 7e

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Guide du Paris Surréaliste

When the Surrealists gathered here (in the 1920s), the walls were covered with the works of Giorgio De Chirico, Robert Desnos and Man Ray. Guests compiled their own library of Surrealist books. Robert Desnos’s Fantomas and André Breton’s Surrealism Manifesto were tacked to the wall with forks, and a plaster model of a woman’s bust hung from the ceiling.

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Saint Sulpice