Editing Paul Éluard (section)

===1930s===
In 1934, Éluard married [[Nusch Éluard|Nusch]] (Maria Benz), a [[music hall]] artist, whom he had met through his friends [[Man Ray]] and [[Pablo Picasso]].

The period from 1931 to 1935 were among Éluard's happiest years. He was excluded from the French Communist Party. He travelled through Europe as an [[ambassador]] of the Surrealist movement. In 1936, in Spain, he learned of the [[Francisco Franco|Franquist]] [[Spanish coup of July 1936|counterrevolution]], against which he protested violently. The following year, the [[bombing of Guernica]] inspired him to write the poem "The Victory of Guernica".<ref>{{cite web | first=Elena | last= Cueto Asín | title=Guernica and Guernica in British and American Poetry | website=The Volunteer | date=2012-09-17 | access-date=2024-11-02 | url=https://albavolunteer.org/2012/09/guernica-and-guernica-in-british-and-american-poetry/ }}</ref> During these two terrible years for Spain, Éluard and Picasso were inseparable. The poet told the painter: "You hold the flame between your fingers and paint like a fire."