During these years he read African-American poets of the Harlem Renaissance and such French poets as Rimbaud, Mallarme, Baudelaire, Verlaine and Valery. Among Senghor's s friends were Aime Cesaire, with whom he would develop the idea of Negritude, and Georges Pompidou, who later elected President of France...
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In 1932 Senghor was granted French citizenship. He served in a regiment of colonial infantry and in 1935 he obtained the agregation degree in grammar. From 1935 he worked as a teacher, notably at Lycee Descartes in Tours, then in Paris at Lycee Marcelin Berthelot. At the outbreak of World War II, he joined the French army, but was captured by the Germans and spent eighteen months in a camp as a prisoner of war...
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