In his early twenties, Cocteau became associated with the writers Marcel Proust, André Gide, and Maurice Barrès.

It became an unofficial club that included artists ( Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, André Derain, Raoul Dufy, Marie Laurencin, Amedeo Modigliani, Jean-Paul Laurens, Maurice Utrillo, Jacques Lipchitz, María Blanchard, Jean Metzinger and Louis Marcoussis ); writers ( Guillaume Apollinaire, Alfred Jarry, Jean Cocteau, Gustave Coquiot, Cremnitz ( Maurice Chevrier ), Paul Fort, André Warnod, Raymond Radiguet, Gertrude Stein ); actors ( Charles Dullin, Harry Baur, Gaston Modot ); and art dealers ( Ambroise Vollard, Clovis Sagot, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler and Berthe Weill ).

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.

A new song, Touch Upon Touch, which debuted during the live shows and was recorded later in 1996, became the last Cocteau Twins song ever released.

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.

They also became part of the famed coterie of Riviera hosts Gerald and Sarah Murphy, which included Hemingway, Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, Fernand Léger, Jean Cocteau, Pablo Picasso, John O ' Hara, Cole Porter, Dorothy Parker and Robert Benchley.

After the War, through her songwriting, she became close friends of Jean Cocteau, Albert Camus, and André Malraux.

He associated himself with the Modernist set, befriending Picasso, Max Jacob, Jean Hugo, Juan Gris and especially Jean Cocteau, who became his mentor.

In 1946, this became a prominent and traditional part of the vineyard's image, with labels created by great painters and sculptors such as Jean Cocteau, Leonor Fini, Henry Moore, Marie Laurencin, Georges Braque, Salvador Dalí, Jacques Villon, Pierre Alechinsky, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Pablo Picasso, César, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Andy Warhol, and other notables.

Eventually they moved to the French Riviera, where they became the center of a large circle of artists and writers of later fame, especially Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, Fernand Léger, Jean Cocteau, Pablo Picasso, Archibald MacLeish, John O ' Hara, Cole Porter, Dorothy Parker and Robert Benchley.

As a regular figure at music and poetry venues like Le Tabou on Rue Dauphine, Greco became acquainted with Miles Davis and Jean Cocteau, even being given a role in Cocteau ’ s film Orphée in 1949.

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.

During this period he met eighteen-year old actress, Josette Day, ( later “ Belle ” in Cocteau ’ s film “ La Belle et la Bête ,” ) who became his mistress.

Cocteau is best known for his novel Les Enfants terribles ( 1929 ), and the films Blood of a Poet ( 1930 ), Les Parents terribles ( 1948 ), Beauty and the Beast ( 1946 ), and Orpheus ( 1949 ).

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.

Cocteau is best known for his novel Les Enfants terribles ( 1929 ), and the films Blood of a Poet ( 1930 ), Les Parents terribles ( 1948 ), Beauty and the Beast ( 1946 ), and Orpheus ( 1949 ).

Edwina Margaret Rose Monsoon, known as Edina " Eddy " Monsoon ( Jennifer Saunders ), and Eurydice Colette Clytemnestra Dido Bathsheba Rabelais Patricia Cocteau Stone, known as Patsy Stone ( Joanna Lumley ) are a pair of high-powered career women on the London fashion scene.

Cocteau Twins were a Scottish alternative rock band active from 1979 to 1997, known for innovative instrumentation and atmospheric, non-lyrical vocals.

An anecdote told by Ernest Hemingway has an enraged Cocteau charging Radiguet ( known in the Parisian literary circles as " Monsieur Bébé " – Mister Baby ) with decadence for his tryst with a model: " Bébé est vicieuse.

Harris has cited Discharge circa 1979-1984, Disorder, Chaos UK, Siege, Killing Joke, Joy Division, Swans circa 1983-1995, Cocteau Twins, Membranes, Public Image Limited, Zoviet France, Nurse with Wound, Skinny Puppy, Meat Beat Manifesto, old school and darkside jungle, drum & bass circa 1993-1996, early Aphex Twin, Brian Eno, Lee Scratch Perry, Scientist, Jon Hassell, Miles Davis up to 1975, John Coltrane and Alice Coltrane, Moritz Von Oswald and Berlin Dub Experimentalists, Jeff Mills, Robert Hood, minimal and hard techno, John Zorn, electroacoustic and musique concrète, Found Sounds, Japanese hardcore bands Kuro and Gai ( also known as Swankys ), Celtic Frost, Death Strike, Genocide, Repulsion, Death, Kid Creole and the Coconuts, Showbiz and A. G., A Tribe Called Quest as prominent inspirations.

It was recorded with Ken Thomas ( known for his work with Sigur Rós, The Sugarcubes, Boys in a Band, Cocteau Twins, and Suede ), Ewan Pearson ( who has also produced for Tracey Thorn, The Rapture and Ladytron ) and Morgan Kibby ( of The Romanovs ).

One of his most better known productions is the Cocteau Twins debut Garlands.

The album's producers were Simon Raymonde ( formerly the bass player in Cocteau Twins, and now Bella Union Label boss ) and Flood, best known for his work with Nick Cave, NIN and U2.

Nevertheless, Prokofieff was much influenced by Paris during the Twenties: the Paris which was the artistic center of the Western World -- the social Paris to which Russian aristocracy migrated -- the chic Paris which attracted the tourist dollars of rich America -- the avant-garde Paris of Diaghileff, Stravinsky, Koussevitzky, Cocteau, Picasso -- the laissez-faire Paris of Dadaism and ultramodern art -- the Paris sympathique which took young composers to her bosom with such quick and easy enthusiasms.

Admiring of Radiguet's great literary talent, Cocteau promoted his friend's works in his artistic circle and arranged for the publication by Grasset of Le Diable au corps ( a largely autobiographical story of an adulterous relationship between a married woman and a younger man ), exerting his influence to have the novel awarded the " Nouveau Monde " literary prize.

While living in France he mixed with Jean Cocteau, Jean Hugo and other members of the French artistic scene and in 1928 he made his first classic film, The Passion of Joan of Arc.

He was friends with a wide selection of literary and artistic celebrities including the playwright Sacha Guitry, the singer Yvonne Printemps, the painters Kees van Dongen, Pablo Picasso and the artist-playwright-filmmaker Jean Cocteau.

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.

* Prince Cocteau the Thrice Blessed ( The Beast ): He is the Beast Prince, the guardian of the Isle of the Beast.

Orpheus (; also the title used in the UK ) is a 1950 French film directed by Jean Cocteau and starring Jean Marais.

As the title indicates, the premise of the series is inspired by the fairy tale " Beauty and the Beast "; in particular, there is some connection to the Jean Cocteau French film of 1946, La Belle et la Bête.

The novel was also the basis of Jean Delannoy's 1961 film of the same title ( adapted by Jean Cocteau ), Manoel de Oliveira's 1999 film The Letter, and Andrzej Żuławski's 2000 film Fidelity ( starring Sophie Marceau ).

Cocteau effusively praised Breker's sculptures in an article entitled ' Salut à Breker ' published in 1942.

Her letters to Jean Cocteau were published after the death of both correspondents.

Her letters to Jean Cocteau were published after the death of both correspondents.

Semina consisted of collages mixed with poetry by writers Michael McClure, Philip Lamantia, David Meltzer, Charles Bukowski, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jean Cocteau, and by Berman himself, which he published under the pseudonym Pantale Xantos.

Les Enfants Terribles is a 1929 novel by Jean Cocteau, published by Editions Bernard Grasset.

" His opium addiction at the time, Cocteau said, was only coincidental, due to a chance meeting with Louis Laloy, the administrator of the Monte Carlo Opera.

Cocteau died of a heart attack at his chateau in Milly-la-Forêt, Essonne, France, on 11 October 1963 at the age of 74.

* 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

Hartmann also involved sculptors and artists such as Jean Cocteau, Le Corbusier, and Joan Miró in exhibitions at Musica Viva.

In 1954, Jean Cocteau insisted on Tiefland being shown at the Cannes Film Festival, which he was running that year.

* Raymond Radiguet, French literary prodigy, died of typhoid at age 20 while on a trip with his mentor, Jean Cocteau.

: 1927: H 65 Antigone, libretto by Jean Cocteau based on Sophocles, premiered at La Monnaie on 28 December 1927

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

Following the break with Cocteau, Durey withdrew to the south of France to work at the home he owned in St Tropez.

Jean Cocteau introduced him to Eugenia Errázuriz, who proved a supportive, if at times possessive, patron.

In addition to making close friends with Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, Serge Diaghilev, and Jean Cocteau, she stayed for a while at La Ruche with many of the leading members of the avant-garde living there at the time.

On 31 January 2005, the Cocteau Twins announced that they would be reforming to perform at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on 30 April 2005, and later indicated that additional tour dates would be added.

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 surreal nature of the Parco dei Mostri appealed to Jean Cocteau and the great surrealist Salvador Dalí, who discussed it at great length.

The critic sued Satie, and at the trial Cocteau was arrested and beaten by police for repeatedly yelling " arse " in the courtroom.

Modern English and Cocteau Twins were the exceptions at that time.

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

Radiguet died in Paris in 1923 at age 20 of typhoid fever, which he contracted after a trip he took with Cocteau.

With Cocteau dead and the prison destroyed, the police and Scraps find themselves at odds over how to run their society.

While German audiences were less than receptive at first, a United Kingdom tour opening for the Cocteau Twins resulted in a label deal with independent label 4AD Records.