Eventually he and his poet friends, Louis Aragon and Paul Eluard, did join the party and, despite some old-fashioned Stalinist inquisition sessions, they refused to renounce surrealism.

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In 1508, the League of Cambrai was formed by Pope Julius II, Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, Louis XII of France and Ferdinand II of Aragon to attack Venice.

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