France: Jean Cocteau, French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker (1889-1963), 1923

Jean Maurice Eugene Clement Cocteau (5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French writer, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker.

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). His circle of associates, friends and lovers included Kenneth Anger, Pablo Picasso, Jean Hugo, Jean Marais, Henri Bernstein, Yul Brynner, Marlene Dietrich, Coco Chanel, Erik Satie, Igor Stravinsky, María Félix, Édith Piaf, Panama Al Brown, Colette, Jean Genet, and Raymond Radiguet.

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