Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager, playwright, artist and filmmaker. Along with other Surrealists of his generation (Jean Anouilh and René Char for example) Cocteau grappled with the "algebra" of verbal codes old and new, mise en scène language and technologies of modernism to create a paradox: a classical avant-garde. His circle of associates, frie...
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Date of birth:
- Jul 5, 1889
Date of death:
- Oct 11, 1963 (age 74 years)
Place of birth:
Also known as:
- Jean Maurice Eugene Clement Cocteau,
- Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau
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