the Hand with feather (1941-1944) is a collective publication and a group which maintained the Surréalisme under the Occupation, in the absence of André Breton and of most of the lifeblood of the movement. The name is drawn from One season in hell of Arthur Rimbaud: “The hand with feather is worth the hand with plow. ” ( Bad blood ). Some of its members took share with the armed struggle, which brought them closer to the Communist party at the time of the constitution of maquis necessary to the Release of Paris.

This illustrated semi-clandestine collective publication appeared for the first time in May 1941. In the first number, the texts and illustrations are the surrealist ones: Adolphe Acker, Christine Boumeester, Achilles Chavée, Robert Rius, Manual J-V (Manuel Violated), Hans Schoenhoff, Gerard Schneider, Gerard Vulliamy of the young ex-Reverberators, néo-hobby-horse: Jean-François Chabrun, Jean-Claude Diamond-Shepherd, Gerard de Sède and Marc Shoe. Signs also Régine Raufast, Laurence Iché and Tita (Edith Hirshowa). Join: Christmas Arnaud, Jacques Office, Aline Gagnaire, Edouard Jager, Jean Jausion, Jean Grubbing-hoes, Nadine Lefébure, Léo Malet, Pablo Picasso, Paul Eluard, Maurice Blanchard, Andre Stil, Jean Simonpoli, Raoul Ubac, Maurice Henry, Oscar Dominguez, Rene Magritte, Paul Delvaux, Jacques Hérold, Victor Brauner, Jean Arp…

Eights of its members died under the balls Nazis or in the camps: Tita off-set and died in Auschwitz, Hans Schoenhoff imprisoned for fact of resistance to the prison of Seek-Midday, deportee and deceased with Auschwitz, Jean-Pierre Mulotte cut down on the bridge of Austerlitz to Paris, Jean-Claude Diamond-Shepherd parachuted by the FFL and deceased in Normandy, Marc Shoe off-set STO in Germany and on the spot deceased.

Robert Rius secretary of André Breton and the surrealist group and son-in-law of Rene Iché, the director of the Books of poetry Jean Simonpoli and young a 17 year old poet resulting from the Layers of the 81 , Marco Ménégoz, are stopped on July 4th, 1944, whereas they were going to recover weapons for the release of Paris. Imprisoned and tortured with Fontainebleau, refusing to speak, they will be shot in the plain of Chanfroy on July 21st with 20 other Résistans.

In order to avoid being comparable with a periodical and being thus subjected to the German censure, the " revue" name with each delivery changed. Its true general headquarter was at Robert Rius and Laurence Iché, public garden Henri Delormel. Principal the " boxes with the lettres" were Marc Patin and No5el Arnaud (which ensured also the secretariat as of the autumn 1941), the majority of the leading articles were hand of Jean-François Chabrun.

List titles published

1. With the absent ones which is not always wrong , No5el Arnaud
2. the split Lawns of Aphrodite , Maurice Blanchard
3. the livable Fire , Gerard de Sède
4. Which makes the rain and the good weather , Jean-François Chabrun
5. Pleine margin , André Breton, text written in Marseilles in 1940
6. the Brother of Lacenaire , Léo Malet
7. That which does not have a name (Synopsis for a surrealist film) J-V Manuel (Manuel Violated)
8. Misfortunes of a dollar , Benjamin Péret, text of 1940
9. Rack in flame , Laurence Iché
10. Locks in waste land , Robert Rius
11. Love letters , Christian Dotremont
12. Picasso , Robert Rius and Jean-François Chabrun for the dialogs.