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  • Claude Cahun (Lucy Schwob) and Marcel Moore (Suzanne Malherbe). Self-Portraits Reflected in a Mirror. c. 1920. Gelatin silver print. Courtesy Jersey Heritage Collections

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July 19, 1892
Born
Nantes
Early 1909
Lucy Schwob and Suzanne Malherbe meet at the Lycée
Nantes
July 1913
Begins publishing illustrated fashion articles in Le Phare de la Loire under the pseudonym Marcel Moore
Nantes
May 16, 1914
Lucy Schwob and Marcel Moore publish "Vues et visions" in Mercure de France
Paris
1915–18
Enrolls at the École des Beaux-Arts; studies painting, drawing, and woodcut
Nantes
1917
Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore live in an apartment in Nantes
Nantes
1919
Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore publish Vues et visions as a book
Paris
1925–27
Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore collaborate with the Amis des Arts Esotériques and Théâtre Esotérique
Paris
1930
Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore publish Aveux non avenus
Paris
April 1932
Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore meet André Breton and become involved with the Surrealists
Paris
1938–54
Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore live in Jersey
Saint Hélier
1940–44
Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore take part in resistance activities and counter-propaganda during the German occupation of Jersey
Saint Hélier
July 25, 1944
Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore are arrested by the Gestapo and put in military prison
Saint Hélier
November 16, 1944
Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore are condemned to death by a German court martial
Saint Hélier
May 8, 1945
German forces surrender and Cahun and Moore are freed from prison
Saint Hélier
December 1954–72
Lives in Beaumont on Jersey
Saint Hélier
January 19, 1972
Dies
Saint Hélier

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