His " Profession de foi du sujet" was published in December in the twelfth issue of La Révolution surréaliste. In late November, Char moved to Paris, where he met Louis Aragon, André Breton, and René Crevel, and joined the surrealists. In August, he sent twenty-six copies of his book Arsenal, published in Nîmes, to Paul Éluard, who in the autumn came to visit him at L'Isle sur la Sorgue.
In early 1929, he founded the journal Méridiens with André Cayatte and published three issues.
His first book, Cloches sur le cœur was published in 1928 as a compilation of poems written between 19. After briefly working at Cavaillon, in 1927 he performed his military service in the artillery in Nîmes. He was tall (1.92 m) and was an active rugby player. He spent his childhood in Névons, the substantial family home completed at his birth, then studied as a boarder at the school of Avignon and subsequently, in 1925, a student at L'École de Commerce de Marseille, where he read Plutarch, François Villon, Racine, the German Romantics, Alfred de Vigny, Gérard de Nerval and Charles Baudelaire. Char was born in L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue in the Vaucluse department of France, the youngest of the four children of Emile Char and Marie-Thérèse Rouget, where his father was mayor and managing director of the Vaucluse plasterworks.