Christmas Arnaud , of his true patronym Raymond Valentine Muller , born the December 15th 1919, deceased on April 1st 2003 with Montauban, was writer, editor, collector of almost all the artistic avant-garde S of the 20th century.

Entered with the Ministry for Health during the occupation, it will achieve there all its career, which it will finish like in charge of the direction of the hospitals of France.

Member of the group post- dadaïste the Reverberators of 1937 with 1940, he was then member of the group Parisian Surréaliste the Hand with feather under the occupation Nazi, then “Surréaliste revolutionist”, member of Cobra, cofounder of the second Internationale situationnist and Situationist Times , the review which it published, president of the Oulipo, and finally satrap of the Collège of' Pataphysique.
He governed the destinies of the Or-X-Po, and founded the Or to vroir of Cui sine Po tentielle (OuCuiPo).
He was the editor of the Situationist Times , of the Baby Jesus , High Dragée .

Publications

• max Bucaille, (with the coll.de R. Passeron and Jean-François Chabrun), Editions of the Gallery Left bank 1950
• the state of outline , 1951.
• new life of Alfred Jarry , 1959.
• Encyclopedia of the Jokes and Traps and Mystifications , 1964.
• Poems ALGOL , 1968.
• the cooked underworld slang and the , with Asger Jorn, 1968.
• Alfred Jarry: of Ubu King to Doctor Faustroll , 1974.
• Images of Boris Vian , 1978.
• parallel lives of Boris Vian , 1981.
• the node , 1985.
• life of Jean Queval by a witness, the Quenaud agency, the rested head , 1986.
• Towards a sexualisation of the alphabet , 1996.
• Of a culinary theory & Adevinailles , 1996
• Electrode earth. Potlatch for Christmas Arnaud , Toulouse, Palate of Arts, Spaces modern art and contemporary of Toulouse and the Midday-Pyrenees, November 7th - December 30th 1997
• No5el Arnaud, it is all that I have to say for the moment. Discussions with Anne Clancier , Saint-Andre-of-Najac, Patrick Fréchet editor, 2004 (posthumous)
• the Meeting with Maurice Blanchard , Patrick Fréchet editor, 2005 (posthumous)
• the fantastic friend , film carried out by Gilles Brenta and Dominique Lolhé (Editions three small pigs), 2002

External bonds

• Biography on “Fatrazie”
• Card on the site of Oulipo