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41st year  -  N° 120                 Thursday, 30 April 2026         Antwerpen		
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Thursday 4th of March 1948
78 years, 1 months and 26 days ago




Playwright, poet, actor and theatre director Antonin Antoine Marie Joseph Artaud dies of a lethal dose of chloral hydrate at the age of 52 in Clinique Esquirol, Ivry-sur-Seine, Val-de-Marne, France.


Artaud was found at the foot of his bed clutching his shoe. It is unknown whether Artaud was aware of the lethality of the drug chloral hydrate.