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Philippe Soupault ( August 2 , 1897March 12 , 1990 ) was a French writer and poet, novelist, critic, and political activist. He took an active role in the Dadaist movement and later founded the Surrealist movement with André Breton . After imprisonment by the Nazis in World War II , Soupault traveled to the United States but subsequently returned to France. His works include such fat volumes of poetry as Aquarium (1917) and Rose des vents card (1920) and the novel Les Dernières Nuits de Paris (1928; tr. Last Nights of Paris, 1929).. involved with the Dada and Surrealism art movements in Paris .