Arthur Cravan
(1887-1918)
French poet, Dadaist and boxer
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Arthur Cravan (born Fabian Avenarius Lloyd on 22 May 1887, Lausanne, Switzerland – disappeared 1918) was a Swiss writer, poet, artist and boxer. He was the second son of Otho Holland Lloyd and Hélène Clara St. Clair. His brother Otho Lloyd was a painter and photographer married to the Russian émigré artist Olga Sacharoff. His father's sister, Constance Mary Lloyd, was married to Irish poet Oscar Wilde. He changed his name to Cravan in 1912 in honour of his fiancée Renée Bouchet, who was born in the small village of Cravans in the department of Charente-Maritime in western France.
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Fabian Avenarius Lloyd 22 May 1887 Lausanne, Switzerland
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November 1918 (aged 31) Gulf of Tehuantepec, Mexico
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| Zodiac | Gemini |
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