Pierre Reverdy ( September 13, 1889 – June 17, 1960)
Good biography in "War Poets, Critical Survey of Poetry"

During the WWII German occupation of France, Reverdy became a partisan in the resistance movement. At the liberation of Paris from Nazi rule his group of French resistance fighters were responsible for the capture and arrest of French traitor, and German espionage agent, Baron Louis de Vaufreland


Reverdy arrived in Paris in October 1910, devoting his early years there to his writing. It was in Paris, at the artistic enclave centered around the Bateau-Lavoir in Montmartre that he met Guillaume Apollinaire, Max Jacob, Louis Aragon, André Breton, Philippe Soupault and Tristan Tzara. All would come to admire and champion Reverdy’s poetry.