Quand le banquet tourne mal Les surréalistes contre Paul Claudel en 1925

In 1925, the surrealists, who published their manifesto a few months earlier and are therefore a very young movement, respond to statements by Claudel reported in the Italian magazine Comoedia criticizing them and in particular, accusing them of pederasty. Their scathing July 1 response, circulated by flyer, takes the form of an "open letter to Mr. Paul Claudel ambassador of France to Japan", and constitutes an orderly attack of all values represented to them by Claudel.