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Gabriel Pomerand
Gabriel Pomerand (c. 1926 - 1972) was a French poet, artist and a co-founder of lettrism. He was born in Paris and moved to Alsace at a young age, and then on to Marseille where he worked as a student for the Resistance. His mother was deported to Auschwitz, yet he survived.
After the war, he moved back to Paris. Here he met Isidore Isou, with whom he founded the lettrist movement. He wrote "Saint Ghetto of the Loans",
arrives in Paris on August 23 after six weeks of clandestine travel. In November, he founds the Letterist movement with Gabriel Pomerand.
- 1946. Isou and Pomerand disrupt a performance of Tzara's "La Fuite" at the Vieux-Colombier. Publication of "La Dictature Lettriste: cahiers d'un nouveau régime artistique" ("The Letterist Dictatorship: notebooks of a new artistic regime"). Although announced as the first in a series, only one such notebook would appear. A subtitle proudly boasts of Letterism that it