Cocteau was born in Maisons-Laffitte, Yvelines, [5] to Georges Cocteau and Eugénie Lecomte, a socially prominent Parisian family. His father, a lawyer and amateur painter, died by suicide …

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.

Apr 25, 2024 · Jean Cocteau, the French poet, playwriter, director, artist and author whose life was as turbulent and eclectic as his oeuvre.

Cocteau met and worked with such artists as Pablo Picasso and Erik Satie, published several volumes of poems, began writing plays and ballets, and established himself as a leading …

Jean Cocteau was one of the most multi-talented artists of the 20th century. In addition to being a director, he was a poet, novelist, painter, playwright, set designer, and actor.

Jean Cocteau was a multifaceted intellectual who, from the 1920s to the 1950s, worked as a writer, draftsman, painter, printmaker, stage designer, and filmmaker.

Jean Cocteau died the day after his close friend, Edith Piaf, in 1963. The prophetic epitaph on his gravestone reads “I stay with you”, and indeed, his influence continues to radiate throughout …

Jean Cocteau, the son of a well-to-do bourgeois family that patronized the arts, began at a very young age to associate with the poets and writers in vogue at the time, including Catulle …

Cocteau explored writing, painting and drawing, theatre and film, and linked disparate forms of art making in explorations of myth, dream, and sexual identity.

During Cocteau's recovery from his opium addiction, the artist created some of his most important works including the stage play Orphee, the novel, Les Enfants terribles, and many long poems.