Jean Cocteau

Jean Maurice Eugne Clment Cocteau was a French writer, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker. Cocteau is best known for his novel Les Enfants Terribles , and the films Blood of a Poet , Les Parents Terribles , Beauty and the Beast and Orpheus . His circle of associates, friends and lovers included Kenneth Anger, Pablo Picasso, Jean Hugo, Jean Marais, Henri Bernstein, Yul Brynner, Marlene Dietrich, Coco Chanel, Erik Satie, Albert Gleizes, Igor Stravinsky, Marie Laurencin, Mara Flix, dith Piaf, Panama Al Brown, Colette, Jean Genet, and Raymond Radiguet.

Cocteau was born in MaisonsLaffitte, Yvelines, a village near Paris, to Georges Cocteau and his wife, Eugnie Lecomte a socially prominent Parisian family. His father was a lawyer and amateur painter who committed suicide when Cocteau was nine. From 19001904, Cocteau attended the Lyce Condorcet where he met and began a physical relationship with schoolmate Pierre Dargelos who would later reappear throughout Cocteaus oeuvre. He left home at fifteen. He published his first volume of poems, Aladdins Lamp, at nineteen. Cocteau soon became known in Bohemian artistic circles as The Frivolous Prince, the title of a volume he published at twentytwo. Edith Wharton described him as a man to whom every great line of poetry was a sunrise, every sunset the foundation of the Heavenly City...

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