Paul Éluard (1895–1952) was a French Surrealist poet. Born into a middle-class family he was sickly through his adolescence. When World War I broke out he was mobilized and served in support forces, at one time writing official notices to families about their dead and wounded sons. Eventually he served on the front lines. After the war, the writer Jean Paulhan introduced him to André Breton, Philippe Soupault and Louis Aragon. He became involved with the Dadaist and then Surrealist movements. He met Max Ernst in 1921 and in the following year Ernst moved in with Éluard and his wife Gala, forming a ménage á trois. Ernst and Éluard collaborated on Repetitions and Misadventures of Immortals. During the late 1920s Éluard published Capital of Pain and Love Poetry, his two principal works. He was one of the noted poets of the French resistance.