Paul Éluard [SEP] cause of death
the Prague writer Záviš Kalandra in 1950.
Paul Éluard died from a heart attack on 18 November 1952 at his home, 52 avenue de Gravelle in Charenton-le-Pont. His funeral was held in the Père Lachaise Cemetery, and organized by the French Communist Party, the French government having refused to organise a national funeral for political reasons. A crowd of thousands spontaneously gathered in the streets of Paris to accompany Eluard's casket to the cemetery. That day Robert Sabatier wrote: "the whole world was mourning"
a lecturer in several universities, mainly in the Universidad Mayor de San Andres (La Paz, Bolivia), where he taught Medieval Lyric, Baroque Lyric and Poetry between 1996 and 1998. From 2002 to 2004 he worked in the staff of the Secretary of State for Culture in Spain.
He has translated into Spanish literary works written by Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, John Donne, Edmund Spenser, George Herbert, Ezra Pound, Emily Dickinson, Mikolaj Sep Szarzynski, Paul Éluard, Joachim du Bellay, Valery Larbaud