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- Died
- Michel Leiris was born on April 20, 1901 in Paris, France. He was a writer, known for Bullfight (1951) and Picasso, romancero du picador (1961). He was married to Louise Godon. He died on September 30, 1990 in Saint-Hilaire, Essonne, France.
- SpouseLouise Godon(1926 - 1988) (her death)
- French surrealist writer and ethnographer, he was the witness for his friend Georges Bataille at his wedding with Sylvia Bataille.
- Friend with painter André Masson, he became the son in law of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler and thus became member of the modern artists group that were around this major art dealer.
- As an ethnographer, he took part in the Mission Dakar-Djibouti ( 1931-1933) and wrote L'Afrique fantôme about it.
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