Raymond Queneau
French poet
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Raymond Queneau was a French novelist, poet, critic, editor and co-founder and president of Oulipo , notable for his wit and cynical humour. Biography Queneau was born at 47, rue Thiers , Le Havre, Seine-Inférieure, the only child of Auguste Queneau and Joséphine Mignot. After studying in Le Havre, Queneau moved to Paris in 1920 and received his first baccalauréat in 1925 for philosophy from the University of Paris. Queneau performed military service as a zouave in Algeria and Morocco during the years 1925–26. During the 1920s and 1930s Queneau took odd jobs for income such as bank teller, tutor, translator and some writing in a column entitled, "Connaissez-vous Paris?" for the daily Intransigeant.
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