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The French organising committee were:


The exhibition was opened in the presence of about two thousand people by André Breton . The average attendance for the whole of the Exhibition was about a thousand people per day.

During the course of the Exhibition, the following lectures were delivered to large audiences:


Dali's lecture was delivered whilst wearing a deep-sea diving suit. Nearly suffocating during the presentation, Dali had to be rescued by the young poet, David Gascoyne , who arrived with a spanner to release him from the diving helmet.

(Source: International Surrealist Bulletin, Number 4, September 1936)