Jean Legrand was born in 1910 in Montpellier and in 1929 he arrived in Paris. He loved Surrealism (although he was never surreal) and jazz, Nietzsche and Proust. He studied with a printer in Nantes, and later became a printer himself; He was editor and creator of a tiny literary movement: Sensorialism. A friend of Claude Cahun and René Crevel, he published some of the texts by Georges Bataille and Benjamin Péret and dealt closely with Henri Michaux, Jean Paulhan and Raymond Queneau. In the second half of the 1940s he became known as a writer with a trilogy composed of: Journal de Jacques, Jacques ou L & rsquo; homme possible and Aurette and Jacques, but soon he stopped publishing. In the 1950s he retired to the region where he had been born, near Montpellier. He died in Paris in 1982, turned into a writer as secret as mythical.