" If it had not been for Apollinaire in uniform ," wrote Cocteau, " with his skull shaved, the scar on his temple and the bandage around his head, women would have gouged our eyes out with hairpins.

Cocteau wrote the libretto for Igor Stravinsky's opera-oratorio Oedipus Rex, which had its original performance in the Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt in Paris on May 30, 1927.

An important exponent of avant-garde art, Cocteau had great influence on the work of others, including the group of composers known as Les six.

In the early twenties, he and other members of Les six frequented a wildly popular bar named Le Boeuf sur le Toit, a name that Cocteau himself had a hand in picking.

In the 1930s, Cocteau had an affair with Princess Natalie Paley, the daughter of a Romanov grand duke and herself a sometime actress, model, and former wife of couturier Lucien Lelong .. Cocteau's longest-lasting relationships were with the French actors Jean Marais and Édouard Dermit, whom Cocteau formally adopted.

Riefenstahl had high hopes for a collaboration with Cocteau called Friedrich und Voltaire, wherein Cocteau was to play two roles.

But that is only one reading of how the Groupe des Six originated: other authors, like Ornella Volta, would stress the manoeuvrings of Jean Cocteau to become the leader of an avant-garde group devoted to music, like the cubist and surrealist groups had sprung in visual arts and literature shortly before, with Pablo Picasso, Guillaume Apollinaire and André Breton as their key representatives.

The fact that Satie had abandoned the Nouveaux jeunes less than a year after starting the group, was the " gift from heaven " that made it all come true for Cocteau: his 1918 publication Le coq et l ' Arlequin is said to have ticked it off.

After World War I, Jean Cocteau and Les Six began to frequent a bar known as " La gaya " which became Le Bœuf sur le Toit ( The Ox on the Roof ) when the establishment moved to larger quarters and as the famous ballet by Milhaud had been conceived at the old premises, the new bar took on the name of Milhaud's ballet.

Satie welcomed the idea of composing ballet music ( which he had never done until that moment ) but refused to allow any of his previous compositions to be used for the occasion, so Cocteau started writing a scenario ( the theme being a publicity parade in which three groups of circus artists try to attract an audience to an indoor performance ), to which Satie composed the music ( with some additions to the orchestral score by Cocteau, see below ).

* The score contained several " noise-making " instruments ( typewriter, foghorn, an assortment of milk bottles ,...), which had been added by Jean Cocteau ( a bit to the dismay of Satie ).

It is supposed that such additions by Cocteau showed his eagerness to create a succes de scandale, comparable to that of Igor Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps which had been premiered by the Ballets Russes some years before.

He also wrote two successful non-fiction books about UFOs, Les Soucoupes Volantes viennent d ’ un Autre Monde Flying Saucers Come From Another World and Black-Out sur les Soucoupes Volantes On The Flying Saucers, the latter prefaced by Jean Cocteau, and by the 1970s, had become a major personage among French writers about UFOs.

Dream pop had developed out of the indie rock scene of the 1980s, when bands like Cocteau Twins, The Chameleons, The Passions, Dif Juz, Lowlife and A. R.

She had friendly relations with the intellectual, literary and artistic elite of the day including Marcel Proust, Francis Jammes, Colette, André Gide, Frédéric Mistral, Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac, Paul Valéry, Jean Cocteau, Pierre Loti, Paul Hervieu, and Max Jacob.

Meshes had a dream-like feel that hearkened to Jean Cocteau and the Surrealists, but equally seemed personal, new and American.

It was in 1917 that he met Jean Cocteau at the premier of Cocteau ’ s ballet “ Parade ,” whose musical score had been composed by Erik Satie and its production design executed by Pablo Picasso

A tradition of “ Saturday dinners ” had been established with Cocteau and his circle, congregating at the newly in vogue jazz milieu of the Paris cabaret, “ Le Boef sur le toit .” Morand and the couturiere Coco Chanel traveled in the same social circles and he became her friend and confidante.

She had a brief affair with the writer and filmmaker Jean Cocteau, which resulted in an aborted pregnancy.

Dream pop had developed out of the indie rock scene of the 1980s, when bands like Cocteau Twins, The Chameleons, The Passions, Dif Juz, Lowlife and A. R.

* Les mariés de la tour Eiffel was a 1921 joint project by Auric, Honegger, Milhaud, Poulenc and Tailleferre, on a scenario by Cocteau

Upon arrival, Anger and Cocteau became friends, with the Frenchman giving the young protege his permission to make a movie of his ballet The Young Man and Death, although at the time there were no financial backers for the project.

As well as his work with the Cocteau Twins, he also contributed to the first two albums by This Mortal Coil, another 4AD project.

* Anthology, 4 CD containing numerous poems and texts read by the author, Anna la bonne, La Dame de Monte-Carlo and Mes sœurs, n ' aimez pas les marins by Marianne Oswald, Le Bel Indifférent by Edith Piaf, La Voix humaine by Berthe Bovy, Les Mariés de la Tour Eiffel with Jean Le Poulain, Jacques Charon and Jean Cocteau, discourse on the reception at the Académie française, with extracts from Les Parents terribles, La Machine infernale, pieces from Parade on piano with two hands by Georges Auric and Francis Poulenc, Frémeaux & Associés FA 064, 1997

* Hommage à Jean Cocteau, mélodies d ' Henri Sauguet, Arthur Honegger, Louis Durey, Darius Milhaud, Erik Satie, Jean Wiener, Max Jacob, Francis Poulenc, Maurice Delage, Georges Auric, Guy Sacre, by Jean-François Gardeil ( baryton ) and Billy Eidi ( piano ), CD Adda 581177, 1989

When Jean Cocteau started making motion pictures, at the beginning of the 1930s Auric began writing film scores.

As a result, Fernand Pouey, the director of dramatic and literary broadcasts for French radio, assembled a panel to consider the broadcast of Among the approximately 50 artists, writers, musicians, and journalists present for a private listening on 5 February 1948 were Jean Cocteau, Paul Éluard, Raymond Queneau, Jean-Louis Barrault, René Clair, Jean Paulhan, Maurice Nadeau, Georges Auric, Claude Mauriac, and René Char.

From 1921 he trained as a painter at the Academie Julian in Paris, where he met Picasso, Jean Cocteau, Georges Auric and Diaghilev.

Despite the acclaim they received, Durey did not participate in the group's 1921 collaborative work Les mariés de la tour Eiffel, a decision which was a source of great irritation to Jean Cocteau.

Raymonde, who was called in to work on the second album by This Mortal Coil, did not participate in the recording of the fourth Cocteau Twins LP, Victorialand ( 1986 ), a predominantly acoustic record which featured only Guthrie and Fraser.

As you know, Jean Cocteau used to talk about the poetry of the novel, the poetry of the essay, the poetry of the theater — everything he did, he said, was poetry.

Pitchfork listed Treasure as the 98th best album of the 1980s, writing, " Cocteau Twins ' third album was titled simply enough.

Pound introduced Antheil to Jean Cocteau who in turn helped launch Antheil into the musical salons of Paris, and commissioned him to write three violin sonatas for his companion, Olga Rudge.

Throughout Orpheus, Cocteau uses very simple special effects and trick shots to show his characters passing into the world of death and back to life: They do so by stepping through mirrors, or else the film is reversed.

The Jesus and Mary Chain and Cocteau Twins are often regarded perhaps the initial exponents of the style, appearing at the beginning of the 1980s and continuing into the style's heyday a decade later.

* The wedding room at the Mairie ( town hall ) was painted in the 1950s by Jean Cocteau, transforming it into a giant work of art.

By this time, the Los Angeles, San Diego, and Santa Barbara regions have merged into the pacifist utopia of San Angeles, under the guidance of Dr. Raymond Cocteau.

When Phoenix breaks into a museum's weapon exhibit to arm himself, he briefly comes face to face with Cocteau, who reminds him of a job he needs to do: kill Edgar Friendly, leader of the " Scrap " resistance fighters who live in the underground ruins of old Los Angeles.

After Spartan and Huxley check prison records, they determine that Cocteau set up Phoenix's rehabilitation program to turn him into an even more dangerous criminal and assassin, with the goal of eliminating Friendly, and go to the ruins to meet with Friendly and warn him.

In the mid-1930s, the Maison de Verre's double-height " salle de séjour " was transformed into a salon regularly frequented by Marxist intellectuals like Walter Benjamin as well as by Surrealist poets and artists such as Louis Aragon, Paul Éluard, Jean Cocteau, Yves Tanguy, Joan Miró and Max Jacob.

It was made into a film of the same name, a collaboration between Cocteau and director Jean-Pierre Melville in 1950, and inspired the opera of the same name by Philip Glass.