Note 8 — Front matter

This chapter is obviously written in an entirely different period. The Poet Assassinated, composes, if we choose to believe so, Apollinaire's vision of his own life. The book was collated from many fragments, many beginnings, and published in 1916, by "l'Édition," for the so-called "Librairie des Curieux." In the opening passage of this chapter part of the influences of the Cubist painters, and their inventions are particularly apparent.