Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Jacques Calonne (born 1930 in Mons) is a Belgian artist, composer, singer, actor, logogramist, and writer. Calonne studied music from 1944a??46 at the conservatories of Mons and Brussels, with amongst others the composer AndrA© Souris, who introduced him to the surrealist movement. He then pursued a course of art studies at the AcadA©mie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels from 1947 to 1949, when he attended a??La fin et les moyensa?? (The End and the Means), the first Belgian exhibition of the Cobra group at the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, where he met Christian Dotremont (Coninck 2007). He immediately attached himself to this movement, becoming its youngest member and taking part in its meetings in the rue de la Paille, as well as in its review and at the exposition "La??Objet A travers les A?ges" (The Object through the Ages) (Minne [n.d.])....