Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (UK: /ˈkɒktoʊ/ KOK-toh, US: /kɒkˈtoʊ/ kok-TOH, French: [ʒɑ̃ mɔʁis øʒɛn klemɑ̃ kɔkto]; 5 July 1889 - 11 October 1963) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, film director, visual artist and critic. He was one of the foremost artists of the surrealist, avant-garde, and Dadaist movements and an influential figure […]
Jean Cocteau had a wide-ranging career as a poet, dramatist, screenwriter, and novelist. "Cocteau's willingness and ability to turn his hand to the most disparate creative ventures," James P. Mc Nab wrote in the Dictionary of Literary Biography, "do not fit the stereotypical image of the priestlike—or Proust-like—writer single-mindedly sacrificing his life on the altar of an all
Jean Cocteau (born July 5, 1889, Maisons-Laffitte, near Paris, France—died October 11, 1963, Milly-la-Forêt, near Paris) was a French poet, librettist, novelist, actor, film director, and painter. Some of his most important works include the poem L'Ange Heurtebise (1925; "The Angel Heurtebise"); the play Orphée (1926; Orpheus); the novels Les Enfants terribles (1929; "The
Jean Cocteau and Jean Marais in 'The Testament of Orpheus' photo by Lucien Clergue One of Cocteau's most notable and significant relationships was with actor Jean Marais. The pair met in 1937, engaging in multiple collaborations and remaining friends and on-and-off lovers for the remainder of Cocteau's life.
Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (UK: / ˈ k ɒ k t oʊ / KOK-toh, US: / k ɒ k ˈ t oʊ / kok-TOH; French: [ʒɑ̃ mɔʁis øʒɛn klemɑ̃ kɔkto]; 5 July 1889 - 11 October 1963) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, film director, visual artist and critic.He was one of the foremost avant-garde artists of the 20th-century and hugely influential on the surrealist and
Jean Cocteau had a wide-ranging career as a poet, dramatist, screenwriter, and novelist. "Cocteau's willingness and ability to turn his hand to the most disparate creative ventures," James P. Mc Nab wrote in the Dictionary of Literary Biography, "do not fit the stereotypical image of the priestlike—or Proust-like—writer single-mindedly sacrificing his life on the altar of an all Jean Cocteau (born July 5, 1889, Maisons-Laffitte, near Paris, France—died October 11, 1963, Milly-la-Forêt, near Paris) was a French poet, librettist, novelist, actor, film director, and painter. Some of his most important works include the poem L'Ange Heurtebise (1925; "The Angel Heurtebise"); the play Orphée (1926; Orpheus); the novels Les Enfants terribles (1929; "The Jean Cocteau and Jean Marais in 'The Testament of Orpheus' photo by Lucien Clergue One of Cocteau's most notable and significant relationships was with actor Jean Marais. The pair met in 1937, engaging in multiple collaborations and remaining friends and on-and-off lovers for the remainder of Cocteau's life.
Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (UK: / ˈ k ɒ k t oʊ / KOK-toh, US: / k ɒ k ˈ t oʊ / kok-TOH; French: [ʒɑ̃ mɔʁis øʒɛn klemɑ̃ kɔkto]; 5 July 1889 - 11 October 1963) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, film director, visual artist and critic.He was one of the foremost avant-garde artists of the 20th-century and hugely influential on the surrealist and
Jean Cocteau was born to Georges Cocteau and Eugénie Lecomte on July 5, 1889, in Maisons-Laffitte, a small town near Paris. He had a very solitary childhood, as his two siblings, Marthe and Paul, were both much older.
Jean Cocteau [1] (Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau, 5 July 1889 - 11 October 1963) was a French artist, poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, playwright, moviemaker and actor. Cocteau wrote or worked on 21 stage performances, some of which were ballets, and some were plays.
Jean Cocteau, (born July 5, 1889, Maisons-Laffitte, near Paris, France—died Oct. 11, 1963, Milly-la-Forêt, near Paris), French poet, playwright, and film director.He published his first collection of poems, La Lampe d'Aladin, at age 19.He converted to Catholicism early but soon renounced religion. During World War I he was an ambulance driver on the Belgian front, the setting for the
Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (UK: KOK-toh, US: kok-TOH; French: [ʒɑ̃ mɔʁis øʒɛn klemɑ̃ kɔkto]; 5 July 1889 - 11 October 1963) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, film director, visual artist and critic. He was one of the foremost avant-garde artists of the 20th-century and hugely influential on the
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Jean Cocteau was born to Georges Cocteau and Eugénie Lecomte on July 5, 1889, in Maisons-Laffitte, a small town near Paris. He had a very solitary childhood, as his two siblings, Marthe and Paul, were both much older. Jean Cocteau [1] (Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau, 5 July 1889 - 11 October 1963) was a French artist, poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, playwright, moviemaker and actor. Cocteau wrote or worked on 21 stage performances, some of which were ballets, and some were plays. Jean Cocteau, (born July 5, 1889, Maisons-Laffitte, near Paris, France—died Oct.
11, 1963, Milly-la-Forêt, near Paris), French poet, playwright, and film director.He published his first collection of poems, La Lampe d'Aladin, at age 19.He converted to Catholicism early but soon renounced religion. During World War I he was an ambulance driver on the Belgian front, the setting for the Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (UK: KOK-toh, US: kok-TOH; French: [ʒɑ̃ mɔʁis øʒɛn klemɑ̃ kɔkto]; 5 July 1889 - 11 October 1963) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, film director, visual artist and critic. He was one of the foremost avant-garde artists of the 20th-century and hugely influential on the
Cocteau, Jean (1889-1963) French writer and film-maker, an experimental leader of the French avant-garde. He was associated with many leading artistic figures of the 1920s, such as Apollinaire, Picasso, Diaghilev, and Stravinsky.
