Henry de Montherlant
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Henry Marie Joseph Frédéric Expedite Millon de Montherlant was a French essayist, novelist, and dramatist. His most famous play written in 1942 is La Reine morte, still studied today in French high sc
de Montherlant c. 1925
de Montherlant in 1910
1922 portrait of de Montherlant by Jacques-Émile Blanche
Lithograph by Robert Delaunay for an edition of La Relève du matin (1928)
Jean Cocteau
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Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau was a French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, film director, visual artist and critic. He was one of the foremost avant-garde artists of the 20th century and h
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…round-table" of French and German intellectuals who met at the Georges V Hotel in Paris in the 1940s, including the writers Ernst Jünger, Paul Morand and Jean Cocteau, the publisher Gaston Gallimard and the Nazi legal scholar Carl Schmitt. Montherlant wrote articles for the Paris weekly, La Gerbe, directed by the…
Cocteau in 1923
Amedeo Modigliani, Jean Cocteau, 1916, Henry and Rose Pearlman Collection, on long-term loan to the Princeton University Art Museum
A portrait of Cocteau by Federico de Madrazo y Ochoa, c. 1910–1912
Érik Satie's Parade, ballet on a scenario by Cocteau