Jean Cocteau, French novelist, poet, and playwright (died 1963)

Jean Cocteau

French writer and film director (1889–1963)

Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau 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 Dadaist movements, among others. The…