Editing Paul Éluard (section)

===Second World War===
Mobilized in September 1939, he moved to Paris with Nusch after the [[Armistice of 22 June 1940]]. In January 1942, he sent her to the home of some of his friends, Christian and Yvonne Zervos, near [[Vézelay]]—near the maquis. Éluard asked to rejoin the French Communist Party, which was illegal in [[Occupied France]]. Thousands of copies of the twenty-one [[stanza]]s of his poem "[[Liberté (poem)|Liberté]]", first published in the ''Choix revue'', were parachuted from British aircraft over [[Occupied France]]. During the war, he also wrote ''Les sept poèmes d'amour en guerre'' (1944) and ''En Avril 1944: Paris Respirait Encore!'' (1945, illustrated by [[Jean Hugo]]).

In 1943, together with [[Pierre Seghers]], [[François Lachenal]], and [[Jean Lescure]], he assembled the texts of several poets of the Resistance in a controversial book called ''L'Honneur des poètes'' (''The Honour of Poets'').<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q8Zh4Z_DPrUC&pg=PA103|title=Le silence de la mer|last=Vercors|year=2011|publisher=Klett Sprachen|isbn=9783125915848|language=fr}}</ref> Faced with oppression, the poets eulogised in it hope and freedom. In November 1943, Éluard found refuge in the [[lunatic asylum|mental asylum]] of [[Saint-Alban-sur-Limagnole|Saint-Alban]], headed by doctor [[Lucien Bonnafé]], in which many resistants and Jews were hiding. At Libération, Éluard and Aragon were hailed as the great poets of the Resistance.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.samuelhuet.com/linguistique/49-poiesis/812-p-eluard-saint-alban.html |title=À Saint-Alban (Lozère) |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=18 September 2000|website=Samuel Huet |access-date=11 July 2020}}</ref>