[Louis ARAGON-Jean René LAPLAYNE] - La Diane Française. Éditions Pierre Seghers, Paris, 1946. 1 vol. paperback, dedicated "to Jean-René Laplayne, to inaugurate our collaboration and Aragon's friendship". Wear and tears. - La culture et les hommes. Éditions sociales, Paris, 1947. 1 vol. dedicated "to Jean Ballard, Aragon". Worn and torn. Provenance: former Jean-René Laplayne collection. Jean-René Laplayne (real name Jean-Dominique Chiocca), was a journalist, editorial writer and former editor-in-chief of the Marseilles newspaper Le Provençal, then of La Corse from 1989. He had been writing poetry since his youth, and knew Aragon, Éluard and Joë Bousquet. LAPLAYNE also wrote for Cahiers du Sud, a literary magazine founded by the poet Jean Ballard.