Jean Cocteau

Jean Cocteau was born in Maisons-Laffitte on 5 July 1889, into a well-off family frequented by artists. He became known as a poet from the age of eighteen, then was by turns novelist, playwright, draughtsman and painter, screenwriter and filmmaker. From 1924 he used opium, for which he underwent several cures. Elected to the Académie française in 1955, he died in Milly-la-Forêt, south of Paris, on 11 October 1963.

In the catalogue 2

• CinemaThe Blood of a PoetLe Sang d'un poèteJean Cocteau · 1930Cinema
• CinemaBeauty and the BeastLa Belle et la BêteJean Cocteau · 1946Cinema