Louis Marie Alfred Antoine Aragon was born in the Beaux Quartiers arrondissement of Paris on 3 October 1897, to Marguerite Toucas-Massillon and Louis Andrieux Aragon. His twenty-four-year-old mother was single, and his fifty-seven-year-old father was already married. To conceal the circumstances of his birth, his parents arranged for him to be brought up as the adoptive son of his maternal grandmother, Claire Toucas. At the age of fourteen months he was reunited with his parents, though he was brought up to believe that his mother was his sister, his father was his guardian, and his grandmother was his adoptive mother. In 1899 Aragon's mother, Marguerite, opened a pension in Paris. Louis began reading (Leo Tolstoy and Friedrich Nietzsche) and writing (poetry) even before he started attending Madame Boucher's coeducational private school in 1906 and the Ecole Saint-Pierre in 1907, both at Neuilly. Precocious, he completed his first novel at age nine. In 1912 he went to the Lycée Carnot in Paris, receiving baccalaureate degrees in Latin and the sciences in 1914 and in philosophy in 1915.
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