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  • NAME: Jean Cocteau
  • OCCUPATION: Artist, Author, Playwright, Poet
  • BIRTH DATE: July 05, 1889
  • DEATH DATE: October 11, 1963
  • PLACE OF BIRTH: Maisons-Laffitte, near Paris, France
  • PLACE OF DEATH: Milly-la-Forêt, near Paris, France
  • Full Name: Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau

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Jean Cocteau was a French poet, playwright, artist and film director. He was associated with the group Les Six.

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Jean Cocteau was a French poet, playwright, artist and film director. Perhaps his greatest play is The Infernal Machine. His first film was The Blood of a Poet (1930). He also directed the 1946 version of Beauty and the Beast. Cocteau was associated with a group of composers known as Les Six and was friends with some of society's biggest movers-and-shakers, notably Pablo Picasso and Coco Chanel.

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