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Cravan fled to Mexico to avoid the draft ; when Loy's divorce was final she followed him, and they married in Mexico City.
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The novel tells the story of a young man following in the footpaths of modernist legend Arthur Cravan across France, Spain, USA, Mexico and finally Salina Cruz.
Cravan was last seen at Salina Cruz, Mexico in 1918 and most likely drowned in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Mexico in November 1918.
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After the First World War began, Cravan left Paris to avoid being drafted into military service.
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Arthur Cravan, fleeing conscription in France, was also present for a time.
In 2003, Watt's first book, Spiels Of A Minuteman, was released by the Quebec book publisher L ' Oie De Cravan.
Arthur Cravan ( born Fabian Avenarius Lloyd on May 22, 1887, Lausanne, Switzerland ) was known as a pugilist, a poet, a larger-than-life character, and an idol of the Dada and Surrealism movements.
He changed his name to Cravan in 1912 in honour of his fiancée Renée Bouchet, who was born in the small village of Cravans in the department of Charente-Maritime in western France.
Cravan was born and educated in Lausanne, Switzerland, then at an English military academy from which he was expelled after spanking a teacher.
Cravan set out to promote himself as an eccentric and an art critic, though his interest was showing off a powerful, striking personal style rather than discussing art.
On a stopover in the Canary Islands a boxing match was arranged between Cravan and the reigning world champion Jack Johnson to raise money for Cravan's passage to the United States.
" Johnson, who didn't know who the man was, knocked Cravan out solidly and in his autobiography noted that Cravan must have been out of training.
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However, in 1920 she would set out for New York, hoping to find Cravan, unable to accept his death.
Cravan and .
She also met the ' poet-boxer ' Arthur Cravan, self-styled Dadaist and fugitive from conscription.
A few months later, Cravan set sail for Buenos Aires in a small yacht as Loy watched from the beach.
He also raises eyebrows by eschewing institutionalized anarchy such as Neoism, preferring instead the strategies of Arthur Cravan.
* 4 Dada Suicides: Selected Texts of Arthur Cravan, Jacques Rigaut, Julien Torma & Jacques Vache ( Anti-Classics of Dada ) by Jacques Rigaut, Julien Torma, Jacques Vache, and Arthur Cravan.
Posters for the match touted Cravan as " European champion.
In retrospect, the incident has been cited as an archetypal example of the " anyone can reinvent himself " philosophy found in later artistic movements — Cravan didn't need to be a professional boxer to lay a claim on being world champion.
The New York Times published the rumor, even though Cravan and Wilde never met.
Without enough money for both of them to book passage on the same vessel, Loy took the trip on a regular ship and Cravan set out alone on a sailboat to Argentina.
Cravan never arrived and it is presumed that he capsized and drowned in a storm raging at sea in the following days.
A biographical graphic novel on the life of Arthur Cravan has been published by Dark Horse Comics.
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The bank eventually failed and Zarossi fled to Mexico with a large portion of the bank's money.
The Yucatecs fled to Belize in the late 1840s to escape the Caste War in Yucatán, Mexico.
Capital fled Mexico at a rate never seen before in history.
During the Spanish Civil War, deeply moved by the assassination of Federico Garcia Lorca, Cernuda fled to England, where he began an exile that later took him to France, Scotland, Massachusetts ( Mount Holyoke College ), California and finally settling in Mexico ; he never returned to Spain.
Many men in Uvalde County fought for the Confederacy, while some Unionists fled to Mexico to avoid persecution.
As Zuloaga's troops were in control of Mexico City, Juárez and his government fled, first to Querétaro and later to Veracruz, whose customs revenues were used to fund the government's expenditure.
In 1912, many Mormons who had fled the Mormon colonies in Mexico due to the actions of the forces of Pancho Villa settled in Gilbert.
Approximately ten years earlier, Macedonio Vela Senior fled from Mexico to escape the wave of executions associated with the War of Reform.
In 1971, Coburn starred in the spaghetti western Duck, You Sucker !, directed by Sergio Leone, as an Irish explosives expert and revolutionary who has fled to Mexico during the time of the Mexican Revolution in the early 20th century.
In fear of Cahill's friends, McCarty fled the Arizona Territory and entered into New Mexico Territory.
Villa fled, with the Americans in pursuit deep into Mexico, thereby arousing Mexican nationalism.
As result of the wars between Mexico and the Yaqui, many refugees fled to the United States.
Similarly, the minority Democrats in the Texas Legislature's upper chamber, the Texas Senate, fled to New Mexico to prevent a quorum of the Senate to prevent a redistricting bill from being considered during a special session.
Most senior Confederate commanders in Texas ( including Smith, Walker, Slaughter, and Ford ) and many troops and equipment fled across the border to Mexico, possibly to ally with Imperial French, or Mexican forces with Benito Juarez.
He fled briefly to Mexico at the end of the American Civil War, but returned home to Marshall, Texas, where he died.
Tens of thousands of peasant farmers fled over the border into southern Mexico.
It was after this accident that Mr. Kunczynski fled to La Paz, Mexico, to avoid any possible prosecution.
After the Pueblo Revolt against the Spanish Conquistadors in 1680, some of the Tigua and Piro fled south with the Spanish to El Paso del Norte ( present-day Ciudad Juárez, Mexico ).
Caridad and Eitingon, having arrived in Mexico City shortly after Mercader, were waiting outside the compound in separate cars to provide a getaway ; but when Mercader did not return they left and fled the country.
Following Slovak's death, Kiedis fled to a small fishing village in Mexico and did not attend his funeral, considering the situation to be surreal and dreamlike.
While Garrison mostly reiterated Clayton's reporting, finding no new facts about the disappearance itself or Gaines ' time in Chicago, he found some more direct evidence that Gaines might indeed have fled to Mexico and lived out his life there.
The Shah fled the country, seeking medical treatment to Egypt, Mexico, the United States, and Panama and finally resettled with his family in Egypt as a guest of Anwar Sadat.
Meanwhile, Gómez Pedraza fled from Mexico City, waiving his right to the presidency.
When U. S. troops occupied Los Angeles and San Diego in 1846 during the Mexican – American War, Pico fled to Baja California, Mexico, to argue before the Mexican Congress for sending troops to defend Alta California.
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