Jean Cocteau

Jean Cocteau was born in 1889 in Maisons-Laffitte, near Paris, into a prosperous bourgeois family. He burst onto the Parisian cultural scene as a teenager, publishing his first volume of poetry at nineteen, and quickly became one of the most visible figures in the French avant-garde. His circle included Picasso, Stravinsky, Diaghilev, and Coco Chanel, and his restless creative energy expressed itself across an extraordinary range of forms: poetry, novels, plays, films, drawings, tapestries, and even murals for chapels. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by Les Enfants Terribles.