I seek the gold of time. These words are inscribed on the tombstone of André Breton. Today I made a pilgrimage to his grave which is located in the Batignolles Cemetery on the edge of the 17th Arrondissement. The cemetery is also the resting place of Paul Verlaine and surrealist Benjamin Péret. During the hours I spent at the cemetery I saw 3 other people. This included a woman who was washing her car in a secluded corner of the graveyard right near Breton’s grave, as you do. I left a small tribute made of a simple portrait and a collection of flowers I gathered from the edge of the abandoned high school that skirts one edge of the cemetery.