Editing Paul Éluard (section)

===Post-war===
On 28 November 1946, during a stay in Switzerland, Éluard learned of Nusch's sudden death from a stroke. Distraught, he became extremely depressed. Two friends, Alain and Jacqueline Trutat (for whom Éluard wrote ''Corps mémorable''), gave him back the will to live.

His grief at the premature death of his wife Nusch in 1946 inspired the work ''Le temps déborde'' in 1947, as well as "De l'horizon à l'horizon de tous", which traced the path that led Éluard from suffering to hope.

The principles of peace, self-government, and liberty became his new passion. He was a member of the Congress of [[World Congress of Intellectuals in Defense of Peace|Intellectuals for Peace]] in [[Wrocław]] in April 1948, which persuaded Pablo Picasso to also join. The following year, in April, he was a delegate to the Council for World Peace, at the conference held at the [[Salle Pleyel]] in Paris. In June 1949, he spent a few days with Greek partisans entrenched on the [[Gramos, Greece|Gramos]] hills to fight against Greek government soldiers. He then went to [[Budapest]] to attend the commemorative celebrations of the [[centenary]] of the death of the poet [[Sándor Petőfi]]. There he met [[Pablo Neruda]]. In September, he was in Mexico for a new peace conference. There he met Dominique Lemort, with whom he returned to France. They married in 1951. The same year, Éluard published ''Le Phénix'' (''The Phoenix''), a collection of poems dedicated to his reborn happiness. Among his best known quotations is: "There are other worlds, but they are all inside this one".

[[File:Père-Lachaise - Division 97 - Eluard 01.jpg|thumb|right|Éluard's grave in [[Père Lachaise Cemetery]], [[Paris]]]]
He later [[eulogy|eulogised]] [[Joseph Stalin]] in his political writings. He even wrote a poem — ''Ode à Staline'' — for him.<ref>[https://www.pileface.com/sollers/spip.php?article1375#section5 "Staline, L'homme que nous aimons le plus"], pileface.com</ref> [[Milan Kundera]] recalled that he was shocked to hear of Éluard's public approval of the hanging of Éluard's friend, the [[Prague]] writer [[Záviš Kalandra]] in 1950.<ref>{{cite web |last=Carlisle |first=Olga |title=A Talk with Milan Kundera |url=http://www.kundera.de/english/Info-Point/Interview_Carlisle/interview_carlisle.html |access-date=7 January 2014 |quote=Poetry is another of those values unassailable in our society. I was shocked when, in 1950, the great French Communist poet Paul Eluard publicly approved the hanging of his friend, the Prague writer, Zavis Kalandra. When Brezhnev sends tanks to massacre the Afghans, it is terrible, but it is, so to say, normal - it is to be expected. When a great poet praises an execution, it is a blow that shatters our whole image of the world.}}</ref>