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Jean Cocteau (Maisons-Laffitte 1889 \u2013 Milly-la-For\u00eat 1963)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young age<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Jean Cocteau was born in Maisons-Laffitte on 5 July 1889.
Born into an upper middle-class Parisian family, Jean Cocteau studied at the Lyc\u00e9e Condorcet in Paris. He was nine years old when his father committed suicide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He published his first poems in 1909 and became a fashionable figure in Paris and the salons frequented by the Countess de Noailles and Marcel Proust. In 1913, Diaghilev’s premiere of Stravinsky’s ‘The Rite of Spring<\/em>‘ was a revelation for him, one that was to influence the whole of his protean oeuvre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enlisted as an ambulance driver during the First World War, he befriended Apollinaire. It was this experience that inspired the novel Thomas<\/em> l’Imposteur<\/em> (1923).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Between the wars<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Jean Cocteau, at the height of his fame, experienced a period of intense creativity, marked by the ‘avant-garde’. He collaborated with musicians such as \u00c9rik Satie (Parade, 1917) and Darius Milhaud, as well as with famous painters, first and foremost Picasso.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was equally curious in his writing, experimenting with Futurist, Dadaist and Cubist-inspired poetry: Le Cap de Bonne Esp\u00e9rance<\/em> (1919), and the poetic novel: Le Potomac<\/em> (1919), Les Enfants terribles<\/em> (1929).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From theatre to cinema<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

He also played an important role in the theatre, with Les Mari\u00e9s de la tour Eiffel<\/em> (1924), La Voix humaine<\/em> (1930), La Machine infernale<\/em> (1934), Les Parents terribles<\/em> (1938), Les Monstres sacr\u00e9s<\/em> (1940), La Machine \u00e0 \u00e9crire<\/em> (1941), L’Aigle \u00e0 deux t\u00eates<\/em> (1946), Bacchus<\/em> (1952).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jean Cocteau was also invested in the cinema and created some outstanding films and screenplays, including Le Sang d’un po\u00e8te<\/em> (1930), L’\u00c9ternel retour<\/em> (1943), La Belle et la B\u00eate<\/em> (1945), Les Parents terribles<\/em> (1949), Orph\u00e9e<\/em> (1950) and Le Testament d’Orph\u00e9e<\/em> (1960).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00ab \u00c9tonne-moi \u00bb<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

To the varied range of his talents should be added that of draughtsman and painter. In addition to his albums, he decorated chapels in Villefranche-sur-Mer and Milly-la-For\u00eat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A genial jack-of-all-trades, a master of the art of enchantment, this creator whose originality prevented him from being pigeon-holed into any specific literary or artistic movement devoted himself to a single master: astonishment – his own as well as that of others. In 1912, Diaghilev challenged him to “astonish him<\/em>“, a challenge he took literally. Jean Cocteau was elected to the Acad\u00e9mie fran\u00e7aise on 3 March 1955.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He died in Milly-la-For\u00eat on 11 October 1963, and is buried in the chapel of Saint-Blaise-des-Simples, which he decorated. www.chapelle-saint-blaise.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to www.academie-francaise.fr<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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