The simple grave of poet Guillaume Apollinaire at Pere-Lachaise cemetery in Paris

The grave of Guillaume Apollinaire, pseudonym of Wilhelm Albert Wlodzimierz Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, Franco-Polish poet and art critic, central figure of the Parisian avant-garde of the early 20th century. The simple tombstone, topped by a cross, indicates the dates 1880-1918: Apollinaire died at just 38, two days before the World War I armistice, from Spanish flu, already weakened by a war wound to the head. His wife Jacqueline rests beside him. Apollinaire invented the term "surrealism" and was a friend of Picasso, Braque, and the major artists of his era.

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