Pierre Albert-Birot was a French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 avant-garde author.

Born in Angoulôme, he moved to Paris

Paris

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 in 1894. There he attended art school and befriended Gustave Moreau

Gustave Moreau

Gustave Moreau was a French Symbolist painter whose main emphasis was the illustration of biblical and mythological figures. As a painter of literary ideas, Moreau appealed to the imaginations of some Symbolist writers and artists.- Biography :Moreau was born in Paris. His father, Louis Jean Marie...

. He worked for five decades as a restorer for antique dealer Madame Lelong.

He began writing after he met the musician Germaine de SurVille in 1913. From 1916 to 1919 he edited his magazine SIC

SIC

Sic is a Latin word that means "thus" or, in writing, "it was thus in the source material".Sic may also refer to:* Sic, Cluj, a commune in Romania* SiC, Silicon carbide, a semiconducting material, also used to make metalworking tools from...

, an acronym for Sons Idées Couleurs ("Sounds Ideas Colors"), which featured writings by futurists

Futurism (art)

Futurism was an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy in the early 20th century. It emphasized and glorified themes associated with contemporary concepts of the future, including speed, technology, youth and violence, and objects such as the car, the airplane and the industrial city...

, surrealism, and dada

Dada

Dada or Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in Zurich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1922. The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature—poetry, art manifestoes, art theory—theatre, and graphic design, and concentrated its anti-war politics through a...

ists. His first volume of poems was Trente et un Poèmes de Poche (1917). His novel Grabinoulor appeared in 1919.