Associated early with the surrealists, he later fought in the resistance and joined the Communist party. Éluard rejected later Surrealism and joined the French Communist Party. His work combines the dreamlike techniques Paul Éluard. by. French poet, a founder of Surrealism with Louis Aragon and André Breton among others, one of the important lyrical poets of theth century. Paul Éluard was the pen name of Eugène Émile Paul Grindel. Publication datePublisher. PDF. Audio. Many of his works reflect