Jean Cocteau
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born
December 13, 1901
died
October 11, 1963
gender
male
place of birth
Maisons-Laffitte, France
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Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager, playwright and filmmaker. Along with other Surrealists of his generation (Jean Anouilh and René Char for example) Cocteau grappled with the "algebra" of verbal codes old and new, mise en scène language and technologies of modernism to create a paradox: a classical avant-garde. His circle of associates, friends and lovers included Jean Marais, Henri Bernstein, Édith Piaf, whom he cast in one of his one act plays entitled Le Bel Indifferent in 1940, and Raymond Radiguet.
His work was played out in the theatrical world of the Grands Theatres, the Boulevards and beyond during the Parisian epoq...more
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"“I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.”"
— Jean Cocteau
— Jean Cocteau
"We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like? "
— Jean Cocteau
— Jean Cocteau
"An artist cannot speak about his art anymore than a plant can discuss horticulture."
— Jean Cocteau
— Jean Cocteau














