" 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.

In 1943 Jean Cocteau wrote a play about an imagined meeting between Elisabeth and her assassin, L ' Aigle à deux têtes ( The Eagle with Two Heads ).

The director Jean Cocteau admired the film, and wrote an introduction for it.

After Cocteau's death, Marais wrote a memoir of Cocteau, L ' Inconcevable Jean Cocteau, attributing authorship to " Cocteau-Marais.

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.

Walker wrote the score for the ROH2 production of Jean Cocteau ’ s 1932 play Duet for One, which was staged in the Linbury Studio in June 2011.

" BBC Online wrote, " Treasure was where the Cocteau Twins first got it 100 percent right.

The stories reflected an urban ennui and disillusion felt by those leading lives fueled by intense emotions and hedonistic self-indulgence. Georges Lemaître wrote in 1938: “ Beyond any doubt Morand is the most typical representative and interpreter of French literature today … His defects and merits, are they not the defects and merits of the world today …” Supporters and enthusiasts of Morand, Cocteau and André Breton appreciated his “ spiteful humour and surreal urban poetry, and aphoristic prose .” French critics praised his descriptive facility with words, leading them to categorize him as a “ modernist ,” and “ imagist .”

When Ford discussed the concept of poetry, he highlighted its relationship with other forms of art, mentioning Jean Cocteau, who wrote the foreword to one of Ford's catalogs of paintings and drawings.

Jean Cocteau wrote the foreword to the catalog.

The surrealists technique was particularly well suited for poetry and theater, although Breton, Aragon and Cocteau wrote longer prose works as well, such as Breton's novel '’ Nadja ’’.

It was paired with a Darius Milhaud opera, `` The Poor Sailor '', set to a libretto by Jean Cocteau, a kind of Grand Guignol by the sea, a sailor returns, unrecognized, and gets done in by his wife.

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

Le jeune homme et la mort (“ The Young Man and Death ”) of 1946 ( libretto by Jean Cocteau ) is considered his magnum opus and it is also his most well-known work ; the choreography and the costumes are of astonishing modernity.

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 ).

Russian choreographer Sergei Diaghilev persuaded Cocteau to write a scenario for a ballet, which resulted in Parade, in 1917.

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.

The telephone proved to be the perfect prop for Cocteau to explore his ideas, feelings, and " algebra " concerning human needs and realities in communication.

Tribute to René Clair: I Married a Witch, Jean Cocteau ( 1945 ), a set design for the Théâtre de la Mode.

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 ).

In 1945, Cocteau was one of several designers who created sets for the Théâtre de la Mode.

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

Not only was he the principal composer for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, but he also collaborated with Picasso ( Pulcinella, 1920 ), Jean Cocteau (, 1927 ) and George Balanchine (, 1928 ).

Modigliani painted a series of portraits of contemporary artists and friends in Montparnasse: Chaim Soutine, Moise Kisling, Pablo Picasso, Diego Rivera, Marie " Marevna " Vorobyev-Stebeslka, Juan Gris, Max Jacob, Blaise Cendrars, and Jean Cocteau, all sat for stylized renditions.

Significant members of the art world, such as James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Jean Cocteau, Bridget Bate Tichenor, and Antonin Artaud, posed for his camera.

In 1965 an hommage was paid to Jean Cocteau after his death, and he was named Honorary President for life.

The Mary Chain, along with Dinosaur Jr, indie pop and the dream pop of Cocteau Twins, were the formative influences for the shoegazing movement of the late 1980s.

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.

In 1921, Cocteau asked him to write the music for his ballet, Les mariés de la tour Eiffel.

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.

In January 1938, Guggenheim opened a gallery for modern art in London featuring Jean Cocteau drawings in its first show, and began to collect works of art.

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

Raymonde returned to the group for The Moon and the Melodies ( 1986 ), a collaboration with ambient composer Harold Budd, which was not released under the Cocteau Twins name.

In 1985, 4AD signed an agreement with Relativity Records for distribution of the Cocteau Twins ' releases in the US and other territories.

While remaining a 4AD band internationally, the Cocteau Twins finally signed a major-label contract with Capitol Records in 1988 for distribution in the US, and released their fifth proper LP, Blue Bell Knoll, in October of that year.

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.

The ballet's premiere in Paris on 17 May 1921 was a huge success and was greeted with great admiration by an audience that included Jean Cocteau, Igor Stravinsky and Maurice Ravel.

In Paris he forged relationships with such prominent cultural figures as James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, e. e. cummings, Aaron Copland, Ezra Pound, Igor Stravinsky, Pablo Picasso, Orson Welles, Jean Cocteau, and Gertrude Stein.

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.

The last salons of Paris were those of Marie-Laure de Noailles, with Jean Cocteau, Igor Markevitch, Salvador Dalí, etc.

* Jean Cocteau ( Narrator ), Jean-Marie Fertey ( Soldier ), Peter Ustinov ( Devil ), Anne Tonietti ( Princess ), studio ensemble, conducted by Igor Markevitch, Philips Records, 1962 production, recorded at Vevey, Switzerland.

In addition to Cecchetti and the dancers, many other artists worked with the Diaghilev Ballets Russes: painters, set and costume designers Léon Bakst, Picasso, Jean Cocteau, and Henri Matisse ; composers Claude Debussy, Manuel De Falla, Sergei Prokofiev, Maurice Ravel, and Igor Stravinsky.