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Created in 1971 and directed since then by Henri Béhar, the Center for Surrealism Research at Paris III is interested in surrealist action in the literary field but also pictorial or theatrical. The Mélusine website extends the center's activities on the web and, since January 2013, those of the association (APRES) which succeeded the surrealism research center.

The Mélusine website is fully part of the digital humanities framework: providing access to the widest public to scientific research conducted on surrealism as well as to documents that are difficult to access. To explore its content, start with the MENU!

You can find a database that proposes to list all surrealist artists around the world. Each artist or writer card allows a global but also precise and detailed view of their career.

You will also find the online publication of texts from different surrealist journals. Examples: access to issues of the journal Dada, and La Révolution surréaliste, allowing full-text search. You can find on the site all the tracts and collective declarationsedited by the surrealists and compiled by José Pierre in 1980.

All deliveries of the Mélusine journal (paper) are accessible in pdf and the summary is sortable and filterable. The journal Mélusine numérique is available in pdf.

Furthermore, the site brings together a corpus of texts and reviews published around surrealism and avant-gardes. Finally, a section brings together a whole set of hyperlinks referring to other sources and sites that may interest the internet user.

The complete list of texts is consultable here. A list of surrealist authors and artists allows access to their texts published in journals and other resources. Similarly, a list of Mélusine authors allows access to their texts published in Mélusine "paper" and "digital".