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Michel Sanouillet's Dada in Paris, published in France in 1965,reintroduced the Dada movement to a public that had largely ignored or forgotten it. More than fortyyears later, it remains both the unavoidable starting point and the essential reference for anyoneinterested in Dada or the early-twentieth century avant-garde. This first English-language editionof Sanouillet's definitive work (a translation of the expanded 2005 French edition) givesEnglish-speaking readers their first direct access to the author's monumental history (based onyears of research, including personal involvement with most of the Dadaists still living at thetime) and massive compilation of previously unpublished correspondence, including more than 200letters to and from such movement luminaries as Tristan Tzara, André Breton, and Francis Picabia.Dada in Paris offers a behind-the-scenes account of the French avant-garde'sriotous adolescence.